Author: Verlyn Lee

Chairman Yang Jincai, World UAV Federation Igno Breukers, President of World UAV Federation Netherlands Chapter Spain Drone Expo opened on April 26 at Glass Pavilion, Madrid and Chairman Yang was invited to give a speech in its conference, titled ' Innovative Drone Application in the Era of Big Data'. Mr. Igno Breukers, President of WUAVF Netherlands Chapter joined our team in the first stop of WUAVF Europe visits. After the expo, WUAVF will then go to Barcelona, Lisbon and Zurich for the following trips and get interactions with local UAV associations. ...

On April 21, a group of WUAVF, led by Chairman Yang visited Beijing for a meeting, coordinated with Ms. Laura Li, Deputy Director of China Association of Trade in Service( CATIS). There were up to 12 representatives from different embassies in Italy, India, Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Namibia, Cameroon, France, Philippines and Mexico attending the event. During the meeting, Chairman Yang delivered an opening speech to give a brief introduction of World UAV Federation and talk about the development of China drone industry. In the Q&A part after his speech, there came some queries from different embassies regarding drone application and regulation in China. Mr. Yang present that drone can work in all walks of life, ranging from agriculture, power line inspection to firefighting and logistics. A question by the representative from Indian Embassy, stating that in the future, will unemployment occur in that drones play an increasing role in our life and even replace human beings? Chairman Yang answered that drones as...

DR. Ir. Sanny Suharli (President of WUAVF Indonesia Chapter), Mr. Jin Cai Yang (Chairman of World UAV Federation), Mr. Andi Komara (Deputy Director for Railway, Aerospace and Defence Equipment Industry, Ministry of Industry Republic of Indonesia), Indra P. Sopian (Deputy Head of External Affairs of Unmanned Systems & Technology Association of Indonesia (ASTTA)) On March 19,2023, World UAV Federation, led by Chairman Jincai Yang and President of Indonesian Chapter Sanny Suharli, met with representatives of Unmanned Systems & Technology Association of Indonesia (ASTTA), the event organizer of Indonesia Drone Expo(IDE) 2023 and the Ministry of Industry of the Republic of Indonesia to discuss about co-organizing IDE ad collaborating on the advancement of drone and unmanned aerial technologies both in China and Indonesia. Both parties are striving for a collaborative mission that the UAV Industry standards will be formulated in both countries and more UAV products and technologies will be innovated. And at the meantime, we will cooperate with national government to come...

On February 6 (Beijing Time), Jincai Yang, Chairman of World UAV Federation met with Moin Ul Haque, Pakistan Ambassador to China and talked about the potentials of future cooperation in the field of UAV. During the meeting, Chairman Yang firstly gave a brief introduction of Shenzhen UAV Industry Association and described the development of China drone industry. He pointed out that currently, drone industry development is forging ahead and will be striving as well as playing a role in all walks of life. Till now, consumer drones accounted for 74% of global market share while industrial drones are 55%. The output value of civil drone market in 2022 has crossed the 100 billion(RMB) mark, where Shenzhen, as the renowned 'Drone City of the World', takes up the market share of 75 billion RMB, from which it comes out a legendary saying, 'Chinese Drone Industry tells the World Drone Industry while Shenzhen Drone Industry tells the Chinese Drone Industry'. After Chairman Yang's...

At 3 p.m. on January 13 (Beijing Time), the 2023 World UAV Federation Online Roundtable Meeting initiated by the World UAV Federation (hereinafter referred to as WUAVF) was successfully held. Presidents and representatives from different chapters, including America, Colombia, Malaysia, Turkey, Australia, Indonesia, India, Philippine, Singapore and Hong Kong, participated in the meeting and carried out discussion on the development of drone industry in various countries around the world, and all parties will reach consensus on close contact and strengthening cooperation in 2023. During the meeting, Chairman Yang firstly delivered a welcome speech at the beginning, giving a general prospect of 2023 to consolidate partnership among different countries and enhance interaction of UAV industry all around the globe. Next, Mr. Jani Hirvinen, vice chairman of World UAV Federation gave a speech about the UAV development in north Europe and some regulations by EASA. And then president of USA, Indonesia, Colombia, Singapore and Australia Queensland Chapter respectively talked about the UAV market in their country and review of what they...

Just in time when the Year of the Rabbit is around the corner, on the evening of December 29, Welcome Dinner of International Committee, China Association for Trade in Services, hosted by the International Exchange Working Committee of the China Association for Trade in Services, organized by Hainan Zhongtai Furui Technology Consulting Co., Ltd., and co-organized by the Industrial Integration Working Committee of the China Association for the Promotion of International Trade and Guangdong Shanxing Operation Management Co., Ltd., was officially kicked off at the St. Regis, Beijing. World UAV Federation was invited to attend the dinner. Mr. Jincai Yang, Academician of the European Academy of Sciences, President of the World UAV Federation, and Founding President of the Shenzhen UAV Industry Association, gave a keynote speech, themed as ‘Prospect of China-Africa UAV Industry Cooperation’. In addition, the guests attending the dinner included leaders of the China Association for Trade in Services, experts from the China and Globalization Research Center, representatives of Shenzhen Intelligent Transportation Association,...

On November 2, the interaction event, themed as "School-Enterprise Gathering in Pingshan,Industry and Education Integration Development" and hosted by the College of Urban Transportation and Logistics, was held at the Academic Exchange Center of Shenzhen Technology University. Leaders from different drone institutions and enterprises attended the event and carried out exchanges on future cooperation and collaboration. During the meeting, Mr. Jincai Yang, academician of European Academy of Sciences, chairman of Drone World Congress, founding president of Shenzhen UAV Industry Association and Smart Transportation Industry Association and honorary dean of USYS Research Institute was appointed as Guest Professor of Shenzhen Technology University. Mr. Jincai Yang said at the appointment ceremony that he hopes to carry out extensive cooperation with the university in urban transportation and unmanned systems and he pointed out that intelligent connected unmanned systems, as a new integrated innovation field, consists of four major parts of water, land, air and space. For water, there are unmanned ships, unmanned boats, underwater submersibles, and underwater robots; for land, there...

This year, the 7th Shenzhen International UAV EXPO 2022 and the 5th China International UAS EXPO 2022 was not conducted concurrently with the 6th Drone World Congress in July 23-25 due to the infection control and prevention in the context of COVID-19. It was postponed to kick off in Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center on August 10th with a period of three days. During the expo, more than 200 domestic and foreign companies demonstrated new products and technologies of drones and unmanned equipment in the exhibition area, exceeding 15000 square meters. In the first day of the expo, we are honored to invite representatives from consulate of Qatar, Thailand, Nepal, Belgium and Pakistan, including Mr. Ghanem Mohamed Almaadeed, Consul General of the state of Qatar in Guangzhou, Dr. Diyar Khan, Consul General of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in Guangzhou, Mr. Kunjan Shah, Consul General of Nepal in Guangzhou, Ms. Namsai Wongsaeree, Consul General of Royal Thai Consulate General in Guangzhou and Ms. Porpot Changyawa, Deputy Consul General...

On July 23th-24th, the 6th Drone World Congress, with the theme "Future of Drone" was held at JW Marriott Hotel, Qianhai Overseas Huaqiao Town Area, Shenzhen. To conduct the event in a safer and more effective manner within the pandemic environment, the main forum as well as 12 sub-forums were held in a combination of onsite and online, which was a great success. The congress gathered over 4000 professionals and entrepreneurs worldwide to mutually exchange their own insights and innovation on the topics ranging from cutting-edge technologies of drones, UAM, low-altitude skyway construction, Emergency Response Logistics, Safety Management, Education and Training, AI Robots, Intelligent Vehicles, Low-speed Unmanned Vehicles, Underwater Unmanned Vehicles and so on. This year, the Organizing Committee of the Drone World Congress is honored to invite Iran as Country of Honor. Mr. Mohammad Keshavarz Zadeh, Ambassador of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran gave a video welcome speech in the conference and Mr. Darvishi Motevalli Hosseinali, Consul General of...