Author: Verlyn Lee

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...