Shenzhen Issues 'Guidelines for Establishing a Low-Altitude Economy Standard System (Version 2.0)'

14 October 2025 marks the 56th World Standards Day. To fully demonstrate the pivotal role of standardisation in empowering technological innovation, driving industrial upgrading, and underpinning high-quality development, while further enhancing the societal impact of standardisation work, the Shenzhen Municipal Office for Manufacturing and Quality Excellence and the Shenzhen Market Supervision Administration jointly organised the 2025 World Standards Day event themed ‘Standards Empowering Industry · Collaboration Creating a Winning Future’. During this event, the Shenzhen Low-Altitude Economy Standardisation System Construction Guide (Version 2.0) was formally released. This document was jointly guided by the Shenzhen Development and Reform Commission and the Shenzhen Market Supervision Administration, spearheaded by the Shenzhen Low-Altitude Economy Standardisation Technical Committee, and implemented by the Shenzhen Low-Altitude Economy Industry Association serving as the secretariat. It was collaboratively developed with research institutes and enterprises across the low-altitude economy sector, establishing replicable and scalable ‘Shenzhen experience’ standards.

The Standard System 2.0 establishes a three-dimensional architecture featuring ‘vertical stratification and horizontal support’, achieving systematic coordination between standards and seamless integration throughout the entire lifecycle. Vertically, the framework is organised in a bottom-up three-tier structure: the foundation layer comprises fundamental commonalities (A) and low-altitude specialised technologies (B), providing unified rules and technical support; the intermediate layer encompasses low-altitude aircraft lifecycle management (C), low-altitude infrastructure (D), and low-altitude air traffic management (E), forming the core of industrial operations; The top layer comprises low-altitude scenario applications (F), focusing on three typical scenarios: public services, specialised operations, and market activities, thereby driving demand. Horizontally, two major sections are established: comprehensive support (G) and safety management (H). These respectively undertake resource supply and risk prevention functions, forming a ‘support-prevention’ collaborative framework. This constructs a comprehensive, element-coordinated, and closed-loop operational standardisation framework for the low-altitude economy.

The Standard System 2.0 achieves systematic coordination and closed-loop integration between standards, reinforces key sectoral deployments, expands comprehensive support modules, and reserves interfaces for technological and scenario expansion. This ensures the system possesses dynamic evolution and continuous optimisation capabilities.

The Association will subsequently unveil the Shenzhen Low-Altitude Economy Standards System Development Roadmap at the Second China Low-Altitude Economy Industry Conference on 14 November. This event will feature an in-depth interpretation of the standards system's content, further refining the top-level design and implementation mechanisms of Shenzhen's low-altitude economy standards framework. Such efforts will drive the sustained deepening and systematic development of standardisation initiatives.