EHang partners to boost low-altitude economy ecosystem

These initiatives target creating an intelligent low-altitude platform that integrates five key networks: air traffic infrastructure network, aerial route network, communications and navigation network, airspace management network, and low-altitude service network.

Both parties will also work together to promote local governments in China for planning and construction of flight data centres, dedicated communications networks, and integrated flight take-off and landing platforms, with EHang providing operational services.

By pooling their high-quality industry resources, EHang and CCIT will jointly create platforms of low-altitude economy for research and innovation, digital industry investment, digitalised joint operations, and ecosystem development. Additionally, both companies will work together to drive the global development of advanced air mobility and low-altitude economy industries, contributing to China’s Belt and Road initiative and the interconnected development of a four-dimensional transportation network covering land, sea, air, and digital infrastructure.

Leveraging CCCC’s extensive infrastructure construction capabilities across China, this strategic cooperation will actively foster partnerships with local governments and EHang’s regional low-altitude business operators. The partnership will deliver comprehensive industrial solutions for UAM infrastructure, ranging from planning and design to construction and operations.

“We will inject new momentum into the high-quality development of the low-altitude economy”

CCIT plans to introduce a comprehensive one-stop solution for low-altitude super IP projects that integrate “land + space + content” in a three-dimensional approach, aiming to construct assemble-style and modular low-altitude flight terminals in places such as central parks and the rooftops of multi-level parking structures. EHang will work with CCIT in the planning and development of infrastructure that combines both parking and terminal functions within cities. Together, they aim to establish a standardised and replicable air traffic pilot programme and drive the development of revolutionary, multi-level transportation hubs that will serve as a model for advanced intermodal transfer systems.

In the fields of low-altitude tourism and UAM, both parties plan to jointly develop 100 intra-city and inter-city comprehensive air traffic terminals and 100 low-altitude tourism terminals in National 5A Scenic Areas over the next three years since 2025. CCIT and EHang will collaborate to establish city-level low-altitude air mobility service systems (E-Port terminals) and jointly operate a fully integrated low-altitude economic demonstration zone.

Several cities in China have reached cooperation intentions with EHang and CCIT to participate in the construction of a comprehensive low-altitude service system centered around culture, tourism, transportation, and emergency services. The two parties will also jointly expand the aircraft sales and leasing market and explore the integrated operations in the “transportation + tourism” industries.

To foster the sustainable development of the low-altitude economy, both parties will explore the establishment of a dedicated fund, a research institute and a vocational training academy for the low-altitude economy industry. Together, they will also plan to set up and operate innovation service hubs in major cities across China, incubating upstream and downstream enterprises while cultivating a skilled talent pool to support the rapid growth of the low-altitude economy.

“We hope that this partnership will serve as an opportunity to fully leverage our respective professional strengths, establish a good cooperation mechanism, focus on the construction of air mobility hubs and innovation in low-altitude economic service scenarios, and inject new impetus into the innovative development of the low-altitude economy industry,” said Hang Yuan, chairman of CCIT.

EHang chief operating officer, Zhao Wang, added: “We are very pleased to establish a long-term strategic partnership with CCCG. It’s a crucial step for EHang in forming a low-altitude economy industrial ecosystem.

“Together, we look forward to advancing the deep integration of digital infrastructure and low-altitude aviation industry, and accelerating the construction of a smart low-altitude new infrastructure system. Upon this foundation, we will comprehensively, deeply, and innovatively apply our technologies, products, and operational management systems in various air traffic flight scenarios, empower the construction and sustainable development of the industrial ecosystem, and inject new momentum into the high-quality development of the low-altitude economy.”