Hefei City, Anhui Province, east China - March 6, 2024 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of First Flight Ceremony of Hefei Medical Delivery Route in progress, drones flying
2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Zheng Mingming, executive president, Anhui Maternal and Child Health Hospital (ending with shots 3-4):
"We have measured the longest distance from the blood station to our farthest hospital, finding it takes 17 minutes, which effectively ensured the rescue and treatment of critical illness."
3. Various of medical staff member taking medical box to hospital
4. Drone

Xiulong Village, Xingshan County, Yichang City, Hubei Province, central China - Recent (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
5. Aerial shot of drones flying
6. Pilot operating drone
7. Various of drones transporting oranges to truck

Yichuan County, Yan'an City, Shaanxi Province, northwest China - Recent (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
8. People handling drone
9. Various of people tying saplings to drones
10. Aerial shot of drone transporting saplings
11. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Sun Jiangting, drone pilot (starting with shot 10/ending with shot 12):
"The maximum lifting weight of the drone is about 75 kilograms. It can lift seven to eight saplings like this. The longest distance is 300 to 400 meters. One round trip takes about one minute."
12. Various of people operating drone, drone transporting trees
13. Aerial shots of trees planted on mountains

Yancheng City,Jiangsu Province,east China - Recent (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
14. Dafeng Offshore Wind Farm
15. Drone flying in sky
16. Drone inspecting wind turbine equipment

Drones are being used in many different ways in China to enhance work efficiency, as the country proactively promotes the development of its ‘low-altitude’ economy and its general aviation sector.

According to a recent implementation plan for the innovation and application of general aviation equipment (2024-2030) released by four ministries including the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), China aims to establish an efficient and integrated general aviation industry ecosystem, injecting strong impetus into the low-altitude economy which covers general aviation and other products and services that operate at low-altitude.

In early March this year, Hefei City in east China's Anhui Province inaugurated a drone medical delivery route system. A total of six routes have been established, with the shortest one spanning a distance of 6.6 kilometers.

"We have measured the longest distance from the blood station to our farthest hospital, finding it takes 17 minutes, which effectively ensured the rescue and treatment of critical illness," said Zheng Mingming, executive president of Anhui Maternal and Child Health Hospital.

In Yichang City in central China's Hubei Province, drones with hooks are revolutionizing orange harvesting. A drone pilot skillfully maneuvers the drone over the orange fields, picking up baskets filled with 50 kilograms of fresh oranges and transporting them to waiting trucks. The drone can transport 15,000 kilograms of oranges per day, more than the workload of 16 people, cutting harvest time in half, and saving over 2,500 yuan (around 352 U.S. dollars) in daily costs.

Drones now play a crucial role in both agricultural transportation and cliff afforestation, as demonstrated in Yan'an City’s Yichuan Country in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, where the use of drones for sapling transport has significantly boosted tree planting efficiency.

Yichuan County's geography of rugged mountains and steep cliffs along the banks of the Yellow River is an ideal test bed for using drones to plant saplings. Previously, individuals had to manually carry four or five saplings at a time, which not only took nearly an hour for a round trip but also posed considerable dangers.

"The maximum lifting weight of the drone is about 75 kilograms. It can lift seven to eight saplings like this. The longest distance is 300 to 400 meters. One round trip takes about one minute," said Sun Jiangting, a drone pilot.

The utilization of drone inspection technology at the Dafeng Offshore Wind Farm in Yancheng City in east China's Jiangsu Province has yielded impressive outcomes, enabling efficient and automated inspection of wind turbine blades in different conditions with drones able to inspect a 70-meter wind turbine blade in just 30 minutes.