
Abstract: As a national strategic emerging industry, the low-altitude economy development is driving industrial transformation and the upgrading of urban comprehensive transportation systems with its characteristics as a new quality productive force. In this report, Zhang Qingsong, drawing on his personal research work, analyzes the low-altitude economy from multiple dimensions, including strategic opportunities, core challenges, and his team’s research endeavors in areas such as eVTOL batteries and aviation engines related to the low-altitude economy. He elucidates the potential and complexity of high-quality development in the low-altitude economy and proposes paths for its high-quality development: First, strengthen top-level design and resource integration, accelerate specialized legislation, promote airspace management pilot projects, and construct a four-network collaborative system of “facility network, air connectivity network, air route network, and service network.” Second, innovate scenarios and construct ecosystems, expand the “low-altitude+” model, and cultivate a new industrial chain ecosystem. Third, prioritize both safety and development, establish a low-altitude flight safety certification system, advance the UTM (Unmanned Traffic Management) system, balance environmental protection technologies with urban living needs, and enhance airworthiness certification and regulatory transparency.