In February, Chengdu JOUAV Automation Tech Co.,Ltd.(hereinafter referred to as JOUAV)became the first Chinese company to go public with drones as its main business.

Eleven years of research and development, design, manufacturing experience, more than 50% VTOL fixed wing industrial UAV market share, about 10,000 square meters of UAV production and manufacturing center......In the field of industrial UAV, JOUAV has a very deep technical foundation.

In Chengdu, the entire industrial UAV industry has been among the top in China.In July this year, at the group discussion of the ninth plenary session of the 13th Chengdu Municipal Committee of the COMMUNIST Party of China, Lu Tiecheng, the party secretary of Chengdu New Economic Development Committee, made it clear that "we will light up the new economy with new racetracks and promote the development of new industrial racetracks in the city."

Lu pointed out that Chengdu has initially formed 40 new economy tracks, including 16 with advantages such as drone and artificial intelligence.The so-called advantageous track is the track with large scale, high technical content and strong industrial scale control and bearing capacity in the country.

For JOUAV, "advantage track" naturally also means a golden opportunity for development.

Ren Bin, the chairman and general manager said: "we will follow the industrial development trend of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), continuous development and reserve the new technology, to promote the core technology research and development of be born into, and build scientific and reasonable development system, and constantly update iteration both products and solutions, enhance the market competitiveness of products and services."

Workers are installing drones as part of the New Zealand government's "Save Maui's Dolphins" Project

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"Drones are a high-tech project of the aviation industry. Our overall technology level is leading in China and advanced in the world. We hope to bring Chinese-made drones to all parts of the world."

In 2015, JOUAV took the lead in releasing and mass producingVTOL fixed-wing industrial UAV in China, and included the new category of VTOL fixed-wing UAV into the category of industrial UAV, which has become the main form of industrial UAVs together with multi-rotor UAV.

On February 10, 2021, JOUAV was listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board."This is a once-in-a-lifetime strategic development opportunity for the company and will help us build all-round competitiveness in the industrial UAV sector."Ren Bin said.

At present,JOUAV has two major competitive advantages: first, it has mastered the core technology, including technology, UAV flight control, design, manufacturing, test flight service, etc.; second, it has a complete industrial chain. JOUAV has a UAV production base of more than 10,000 square meters and a complete modern production line.These enable the company to quickly develop new products, and at the same time can reduce costs, improve competitive advantage, price.

In recent years, the development of UAVindustry has entered an upward phase, especially the development of 5G has promoted the intelligent revolution of UAV. The deep integration of the two has explored more application scenarios of industrial UAV, and realized the organic combination of "ARTIFICIAL intelligence +IT+ traditional aviation industry".At present, industrial drones have been widely used in water conservancy patrol, forest patrol and grass protection, border patrol, emergency relief, digital city and other fields.

According to Ren, the company is also involved with the MAUI63 -- Save Maui's Dolphins -- launched by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, which uses drones and artificial intelligence to protect the world's most endangered dolphin species.

Rochelle, a professor in the department of biological sciences and a member of the project team, previously told the Press: "Using the Dapeng Drone will help to obtain critical information about the distribution of Maui dolphins and how they use their habitat, filling in the scientific gaps and being an essential tool to bring the species back from the brink of extinction."

_{Ren Bin, President and General manager of JOUAV}

Industrial Drone 2.0

Chengdu, as the industrial center of domestic industrial UAV, has provided technical and talent support for UAVindustry by relying on its strong aerospace research strength and complete aviation industry chain.Chengdu UAVupstream and downstream enterprises more than 100, in composite materials, parts processing, sensors and other aspects can achieve fast docking.

At the same time, Chengdu has a complete industrial system in the field of electronic information. Thanks to the industrial foundation of "aviation + electronic information", Chengdu's industrial UAV industry has the conditions to start at a high point and accelerate its development.

Industrial UAVenterprises represented byJOUAV, rooted in Chengdu, have enjoyed a steady flow of industrial support policies and urban development dividends during the ten years of innovation and entrepreneurship. They have the large-scale production capacity of UAV, and the full independent production capacity of composite materials, parts, avionics system and complete machine.

"In the future, with the acceleration of Chengdu's new economic development and a good industrial environment, the national industrial UAV will be promoted to enter a new stage of development, namely the 2.0 era of industrial UAV."Ren Bin said that the 2.0 era has three main characteristics: intelligent, platform and tool.

"It's going to get smarter and easier to use."In Ren's opinion, industrial UAV should absorb some features of military and consumer UAV, and integrate the most advanced technologies such as obstacle avoidance technology and automatic intelligent flight.He believes that industrial drones will be more widely used in the industry.

"The future UAV industry will be a dumbbell pattern of two big, small in the middle."In other words, the upstream is large, the downstream is large, and the platform vendors in the middle will become more and more concentrated.JOUAV, as an intermediate manufacturer , hope to be able to "achieve the product platform".

Different from consumer and military UAV, one of the important characteristics of industrial UAV is that they are oriented to industrial applications."Our strategy this year is to do ecological construction, find a large number of partners, carry out platform development of Dapeng UAV, and then promote industry by industry."

ForRen Bin, drones are actually a tool to elevate human activities from two dimensions to three dimensions. They are also the most important tool. In the future, they will become cheaper, safer and more reliable."That's one of the benefits of being instrumental."

"In the near future, drones will not only carry logistics, will carry people, but will also observe various types of land."Ren Bin admitted that China's current development and utilization of low-altitude resources is very weak, and UAV will be the most important form of carrying low-altitude value and low-altitude economy.

"In the next five years, we hope that the 2.0 era of industrial drones will be vigorously expanded, closely integrated with the market and empowering all walks of life."(Pictures by interviewee)