24 teams from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao compete in drone application technology and professional skills

China News Service, Zhuhai, November 6 (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) The finals of the 2026 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Drone Application Technology Vocational Skills Competition opened in Zhuhai on the 6th, attracting 24 teams from 21 prefecture-level and above cities in Guangdong, as well as Hong Kong, Macau, and Hengqin to compete in 4 competition areas in Zhuhai and Hengqin. The competition will last until November 8th.

Starting from 2024, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security will join hands with the Zhuhai Municipal People's Government and the Executive Committee of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone to hold the Guangdong Provincial Drone Application Technology Vocational Skills Competition in Zhuhai for two consecutive years. In 2026, the competition was upgraded to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Drone Application Technology Vocational Skills Competition. The Guangdong Provincial Federation of Trade Unions, the Hong Kong Vocational Training Council, and the Labor Affairs Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government joined as organizers. Macao experts participated in the joint judging, and Hong Kong experts attended the scene to observe.

This competition insists on holding the competition in real scenes, deeply integrating industry job processes and skill standards into competition tasks, and promoting the competition content to be closely aligned with the actual needs of the industry. Among them, the staff group has set up three tracks: smart city, smart logistics, and electric power inspection, which closely follow the front-line application needs of low-altitude economic industries. The tracks are all located on the front line of industry, highlighting practical orientation; the student group has set up two projects: drone pilot and drone assembly and maintenance, focusing on the cultivation of basic skills and the cultivation of reserve talents.

At the opening ceremony of the finals, the Guangdong Province Low-altitude Skilled Talent Evaluation Expert Advisory Committee was formally established, and the first batch of nine experts from the low-altitude economic field were awarded letters of appointment to provide intellectual support for the high-quality development of the low-altitude economy in the Bay Area.

At present, there are 60 evaluation agencies in Guangdong province that carry out the certification of four professional skill levels, including drone pilots, drone assembly and maintenance workers, drone surveying and mapping operators, and drone group flight planners. A total of 10,891 people have obtained relevant professional skill level certificates.