Urban air mobility platform operator EHang has launched an urban air mobility demonstration centre at OH Bay in Shenzhen. This follows the company’s partnership with the Shenzhen Bao’an District Government in July. The district government aims to establish aerial sightseeing services in the phase.

The centre was built within four months by the Bao’an Transportation Group with the support from the Bao’an District Government. It covers a total area of approximately 4,600 square metres. It includes an eVTOL vertiport for EHang’s passenger-carrying pilotless eVTOL aircraft EH216-S, hangars, a command-and-control centre, passenger waiting area, and a service centre.

Bao’an Transportation Group has entered into a letter of intent on cooperation with EHang. Two parties will continue to work together to set up an operation demonstration model for passenger-carrying unmanned aerial vehicles and to build a low-altitude economy ecosystem in Shenzhen.

Furthermore, Shenzhen Boling Holding Group Co., Ltd., which has purchased 5 units of EH216-S from EHang and plans to purchase additional 95 units in the future, recently established a subsidiary Shenzhen Pengcheng Wings General Aviation Co., Ltd. (“Pengcheng Wings”), a joint venture with EHang. Pengcheng Wings will be involved in multi-party-cooperation on the low-altitude UAM operations as a flight service operator in Shenzhen.

In recent years, Shenzhen has been forward in implementing favourable policies for the development of a low-altitude economy. Efforts range from relaxing aerospace restrictions to providing infrastructure support and site operations for enterprises to conduct trial services. Multi-party joint efforts will be dedicated to systematically developing a benchmark for UAM operations, thereby facilitating the establishment of Shenzhen’s low-altitude economy system framework.