Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Low-Altitude Airspace Intelligent Control and Safety Guarantee Technology Unveiled

China News Service, Changji, Xinjiang, November 14 (Lv Shangze) On the 14th, the Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Low-altitude Airspace Intelligent Control and Safety Guarantee Technology was unveiled at Changji University. This key laboratory is the only key laboratory in Xinjiang focusing on low-altitude airspace planning and management.

On the same day, Changji University held a low-altitude technology high-quality development forum and Changji University Aviation School’s 10th Anniversary Achievements Exhibition. Since its establishment in 2016, the School of Aviation of Changji University has opened a master's degree program in transportation (aviation) and 6 undergraduate majors in transportation (aviation control and dispatch), aircraft operation and maintenance engineering, unmanned aircraft system engineering, and aviation service art and management. It has trained more than 1,600 aviation graduates and continues to provide a large number of applied professionals to Xinjiang's civil aviation and drone-related industries.

On November 14, the Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Low-altitude Airspace Intelligent Control and Safety Assurance Technology was unveiled at Changji University. Photo by Lu Shangze

According to Chen Huimin, the subject leader of the School of Aviation at Changji University and the director of the Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Low-altitude Airspace Intelligent Control and Safety Assurance Technology, in 2024, Changji University relied on the original 10,000-meter-high-altitude airspace and route planning and management discipline foundation, anchored the core track of low-altitude technology, and lowered the high-altitude airspace management and control ideas to the direction of low-altitude drone control below 300 meters. In addition, the school already had a junior college major in drone application technology. It applied for the above-mentioned key laboratory and was finally approved.

Chen Huimin said: "In addition to training undergraduates and graduate students in aviation majors, another great value of the key laboratory is to solve the problem of low-altitude drones that cannot fly and cannot be controlled. We focus on low-altitude perception, intelligent airspace management and control, and low-altitude safety guarantee, and provide technical support services to the government and various low-altitude related enterprises. At the same time, we support the transformation of scientific research results and contribute to Xinjiang's economic construction."

Ji Rong, Secretary of the Party Committee of Changji University, said that Changji University will fully support the construction and operation of key laboratories, help create a low-altitude innovation source highland based in Changji, serve Xinjiang, and radiate the northwest, and provide both talent and technology support for the high-quality development of Xinjiang's low-altitude economy.

At the event site, Changji College signed a cooperation agreement with relevant enterprises, and invited experts and scholars from universities and scientific research institutions such as Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences to give relevant reports.