From Low-Altitude Blueprint to Practical Application, China Natural Resources Mapping Builds "Low-Altitude High-Speed" New Model in Changzhi, Shanxi

Recently, Shanxi released its first list of low-altitude economic application scenarios and supply lists. The two lists cover four major application categories: production operations (including agricultural and forestry plant protection, inspections, surveying, and exploration), low-altitude transportation (including logistics and travel), public governance (including emergency rescue, medical aid, and urban management), and low-altitude consumption (including tourism and aerial sports). The demand list includes 100 items, and the supply list includes 80 items.

Currently, the low-altitude economy has become an emerging pillar industry. Zhongke Xingtu is implementing a new infrastructure project in Changzhi, Shanxi, to establish a low-altitude safety assurance system. The project is steadily progressing and has achieved phased results. Three major scenarios—forest fire monitoring, tailings pond monitoring, and illegal construction monitoring—have been put into use, empowering local governance and industrial upgrading with low-altitude technology.

Core scenarios are showing results

Accurate empowerment to solve governance challenges

Changzhi, known as the “Cradle of General Aviation in China,” has a deep foundation in civil aviation and broad development space for the low-altitude economy. It boasts unique natural low-altitude resources such as the southern foothills of the Taihang Mountains, covering diverse needs like logistics, emergency rescue, and agricultural and forestry plant protection. The development plan for the low-altitude economy in Shangdang District aligns closely with local scenarios, providing natural advantages for Zhongke Xingtu to realize scenario-based implementation.

Guided by scenario demands, Zhongke Xingtu integrates low-altitude technology with regional governance and safety production. Currently, three major scenarios are gradually being implemented with initial results, using technological power to address industry pain points and safeguard regional safety and development.

· Forest Fire Scenario

Full-chain prevention and control to protect ecological safety

By integrating satellite, drone, high-altitude camera, and other multi-source monitoring data, a three-dimensional sky-ground monitoring system is formed. This comprehensive situation map provides an overview of regional forest fire risks, capturing key conditions such as fire status, weather, and emergency forces.

Fire risk prediction is based on multi-dimensional data including weather, vegetation, and historical fire incidents, scientifically assessing fire danger levels for the upcoming week. Automated alerts are generated at levels such as very high, high, and moderate, supporting early deployment and precise prevention.

24-hour comprehensive monitoring consolidates data from sky, air, ground, and multiple human sources, enabling accurate fire detection and rapid pinpointing of fire points. Detection time has been reduced from two hours to within 30 minutes.

Fire information is graded and directly delivered to frontline management personnel. Drones can verify fire conditions, greatly reducing verification time and manpower, providing real-time on-site situation awareness, and effectively solving issues of late detection and false alarms, ensuring early discovery and prompt response.

In case of fire alerts, the system can lock onto the fire point with one click, match emergency forces, and activate response plans. It builds fire spread analysis models to accurately analyze fire propagation paths, speeds, and impact areas. The platform can simultaneously issue commands for firefighting, medical aid, and rescue, tracking the entire process from detection to handling, ensuring seamless coordination and strengthening ecological safety barriers.

· Tailings Pond Monitoring Scenario

Full-cycle management to ensure safety

A comprehensive monitoring “one map” is created to visualize the entire mine area, clearly displaying tailings pond distribution, dam conditions, and surrounding environment, providing a global view for safety management.

Multiple monitoring methods are cross-verified: InSAR, drones, and ground-based data are analyzed together, forming multiple layers of insurance to significantly improve reliability and accuracy. Subtle changes such as dam settlement and displacement can be precisely detected, enabling early hazard identification and warning.

For various tailings pond hazards, the system can quickly locate danger points, automatically match emergency resources, and activate specific response plans. Relying on professional tailings pond simulation models, it dynamically simulates dam instability, overflow, and leakage development trends, scientifically predicting impact scope and risk levels. The platform issues real-time instructions for site control, engineering rescue, and evacuation, tracking all response nodes and feedback, enabling automatic hazard warning, rapid emergency response, and full-process control, forming a closed-loop from risk detection to emergency handling, safeguarding mine safety and nearby residents’ lives and property.

· Illegal Construction Monitoring Scenario

Smart patrols to improve urban governance efficiency

Using automated drone patrols and digital management, combined with satellite remote sensing and high-altitude surveillance, the system achieves full coverage and no blind spots in monitoring illegal construction, solving the traditional issues of low efficiency, blind spots, and difficult evidence collection.

The system can automatically identify illegal construction activities such as new, expanded, or reconstructed buildings, precisely locate violations, estimate their size, and generate detailed patrol reports. Illegal construction information can be reported with one click and handled at different levels, shifting urban governance from “passive response” to “active prevention,” injecting technological power into modern city management.

Guided by scenario demands and industry cultivation goals, Zhongke Xingtu plans to build a “1+1+X” development model in Shangdang District, Changzhi—namely, constructing one low-altitude expressway, one scenario application testing base, and expanding X low-altitude economic scenarios. This will help transition Changzhi’s low-altitude economy from “single-point applications” to “scenario clusters,” from “industry budding” to “ecological maturity.”

“1 Low-Altitude Expressway”: Focuses on building the “Shangdang Low-Altitude Expressway,” covering the entire region, full chain, and 24/7 operation. It will establish a new infrastructure system integrating perception, communication, positioning, countermeasures, takeoff and landing, and maintenance, creating a replicable and promotable city-level low-altitude operation service model.

“1 Testing Base”: Develops North China’s first industry-level low-altitude UAV application scenario testing demonstration base, providing full lifecycle technical services from airworthiness verification to mass production testing for drone R&D and manufacturing enterprises.

“X Low-Altitude Economy Scenarios”: Focuses on fields such as forest fire prevention, emergency rescue, transportation logistics, agricultural and forestry plant protection, and low-altitude cultural tourism, promoting deep integration of low-altitude technology with social and economic development, unlocking diverse values.

New infrastructure + safety system for low-altitude

Creating a “low-altitude expressway” to overcome development challenges

The extension of low-altitude scenarios relies on infrastructure and safety systems. Changzhi’s project precisely targets core pain points in low-altitude development, driven by “new low-altitude infrastructure + safety system,” to build a distinctive “low-altitude expressway,” solving industry issues like “invisible, unmanageable, poor flying quality,” and strengthening the support system for low-altitude operations, establishing safe and efficient infrastructure.

“1+6” service system covers the entire industry chain

The Changzhi project aims to create a “technologically advanced, highly coordinated, safe and reliable, and scenario-diverse” low-altitude service system, fully connecting infrastructure construction with scenario implementation. As a pioneer in low-altitude industry development, Zhongke Xingtu proposed the core concept of “controlling the sky with Tianqi and computing,” and systematically developed a “1+2+N+M” strategic framework: one low-altitude cloud, two types of test sites, N regional demonstrations, and M industry applications, providing a highly compatible, implementable, and expandable overall solution.

With years of experience in space-air data governance, intelligent computing, and safety management, Zhongke Xingtu has formed a unique “1+6” full-stack service capability, covering “ground—air—cloud” three-dimensional service space. The deployment in Shangdang District, Changzhi, is not only a practical test of Zhongke Xingtu’s technological system but also a milestone in transitioning the low-altitude economy from policy guidance to industrialization and scale development. It offers a regional model that can be referenced, adapted, and sustained across the country.

Low-altitude infrastructure consolidates safety foundation

Tailored low-altitude infrastructure is key to solving issues like “short endurance, scheduling difficulties, weak communication, and safety concerns” in low-altitude flying. It also activates airspace resource value and creates a strategic foundation for the “industry-scenario-service” ecosystem. Zhongke Xingtu will build low-altitude flight infrastructure, including safety facilities, physical low-altitude equipment, and testing platforms, while deploying industrial-grade drones and various payloads as application terminals.

By pioneering the “low-altitude expressway” concept, establishing access points, and creating a grid-based multi-functional node application service system, real-time information exchange and precise service delivery are achieved. Nodes will integrate emergency response, medical transfer, urban inspection, and other scenarios, promoting full coverage, dynamic scheduling, and intelligent management of low-altitude resources, supporting high-quality regional low-altitude economic development.

From “flying high” to “flying safely, smoothly, and economically,” Zhongke Xingtu’s products and technologies will deeply integrate into all links of the low-altitude industry chain, strengthening front-end “safety control,” preventing risks like “black flying” and “unauthorized flying,” and ensuring “controllability.” It will improve three-dimensional “facility deployment,” coordinating communication towers, transportation corridors, and urban public spaces to ensure “takeoff and landing.” It will also enhance scenario-based “service support,” equipping multiple drone models and diverse payloads to promote “good use and manageable operation.”

Building a scenario testing base

Creating a low-altitude industry ecosystem

If infrastructure is the “skeleton” of the low-altitude economy, then testing and verification capabilities are its “soul.” Zhongke Xingtu accurately grasps this core need, focusing on regional industry pain points, leveraging high-quality airspace resources, diverse terrain, and a solid manufacturing base to build a comprehensive testing base covering flight performance, subsystem testing, multi-scenario application validation, and general quality testing.

As a public technical infrastructure serving the low-altitude industry chain, the testing base will primarily support medium and large multi-rotor, tilt-rotor, fixed-wing, and other UAVs and key components, providing full-cycle testing from R&D, type certification, to mass production. This reduces R&D costs, shortens time-to-market, and helps enterprises seize market opportunities. Additionally, utilizing Shangdang’s rich scenarios and geography, the base will develop full-system validation platforms for logistics, emergency rescue, urban governance, and agricultural protection, promoting demonstration applications and advancing low-altitude industry development.

From a regional industry perspective, the base’s operation will fill gaps in testing and verification, providing core support for technological innovation and ensuring safe UAV operation. More importantly, it will attract upstream and downstream companies through public technical services, creating a virtuous cycle of “testing-verification—technological innovation—industry implementation,” helping Changzhi become a demonstration hub for low-altitude economy in Shanxi and North China.

Once completed, the project will comprehensively cover core applications such as low-altitude logistics, urban governance, emergency rescue, cultural tourism, and agricultural monitoring, filling gaps in emerging consumer industries. It will make city management more efficient, public services more convenient, and industry development more robust, injecting new momentum into regional GDP growth and bringing transformative change to Changzhi.

This project is jointly implemented by Zhongke Xingtu and Zhongxun Postal and Telecommunications Consulting Design Institute Co., Ltd. Through integrated planning, one-stop construction, and full-cycle management, it ensures high standards in quality, progress, and technical compliance, supporting the safe, efficient, and sustainable development of the low-altitude economy in Shangdang District.

Changzhi’s implementation is another showcase of Zhongke Xingtu’s comprehensive low-altitude capabilities and a successful practice of the “scenario-driven + industry empowerment” development model. Zhongke Xingtu will continue to focus on technological innovation and scenario applications, helping Changzhi build a “scenario-rich, technologically advanced, industry-clustered” low-altitude economy demonstration benchmark, providing replicable and scalable “Xingtu solutions” for the nationwide transition from “scenarios to industry,” making the low-altitude economy a powerful engine for high-quality growth!