With the upgrading of low altitude economy to an "emerging pillar industry", low altitude security and safety are rapidly moving towards the center of the stage, becoming the cornerstone of high-quality industrial development. In order to make the low altitude economy fly higher and more steadily in the trillion dollar blue sea, Chengdu, Sichuan did not regard security and safety as a "bottom line link" for industrial development. Represented by Chengdu High tech Zone, it regards security and safety as the pre scenario, underlying support, and core track of the low altitude economy, and has embarked on a new path of mutual empowerment and symbiosis between security and development.

Athletes sweat on the field, and applause and cheers from the audience grow louder and louder... During the 12th Chengdu World Games in 2025, the lively competition atmosphere contrasts sharply with the tranquility of multiple low altitude security and safety monitoring stations around the field. The real-time transmission of data and images on the large screen within the monitoring station touches the hearts of every security personnel. In order to ensure the safety of the competition, we set up five fixed monitoring stations around the venue and cooperated with the public security and armed police to monitor and control a large number of unreported drones, ensuring zero low altitude safety accidents during the competition, "recalled Xia Lihua, founder of Chengdu Dagong Bochuang Information Technology Co., Ltd. It was not until the end of the competition and the successful completion of security tasks that her anxious heart finally came to an end.

This is a 'practical test' of low altitude security capabilities in Chengdu High tech Zone, Sichuan Province. Similar 'big exams' that cannot tolerate any mistakes are being staged at any time in major events across the country.

The application of security and safety scenarios is an important foundation for the large-scale development of low altitude economy. In recent years, Chengdu High tech Zone has been accumulating strength on the low altitude economic track, anchoring the goal of building the "China Wing Valley", and exploring a development path of "safety foundation, innovation driven, and governance upgrading" in the field of security and safety.

The core competitiveness of low altitude safety has always been autonomous and controllable core technologies. Faced with an endless stream of modified drones, as well as frequency hopping and variable frequency crossing machines, traditional monitoring equipment often falls into the dilemma of being "invisible, unable to capture accurately, and unable to stop". Without autonomous and controllable core technologies, low altitude safety is just an empty phrase.

Chengdu Dagong Bochuang Information Technology Co., Ltd., founded in 2004, has been deeply involved in the field of electromagnetic spectrum control for 22 years. Among the company's more than 300 employees, 60% are research and development personnel. Nowadays, some drone enthusiasts will 'rub' their hands on drones and even create full frequency hopping time crossing aircraft with extremely strong signal concealment, which poses great challenges to low altitude detection, "said Xia Lihua.

In response to the common pain points in this industry, they have developed the Tianmu full frequency unmanned aerial vehicle detection and direction finding equipment, which has obtained the first domestic certification for major technical equipment in Sichuan Province. This device achieves spectrum monitoring without blind spots in urban airspace, and can achieve meter level positioning of targets even in complex urban environments with high-rise buildings. Based on the unmanned aerial vehicle signal feature library independently built by the company, combined with AI intelligent recognition algorithms, this device can accurately distinguish between legal flight and illegal "black flight" in milliseconds, minimizing interference and control errors.

If Dagong Bochuang is the "sensory nerve" of urban low altitude security, then Chengdu Zongheng Automation Technology Co., Ltd. is more like the "action arm" in low altitude security scenarios. The "Dapeng" series of vertical takeoff and landing fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicles produced by this company has consistently ranked first in the domestic market share.

The rooftop platform of the R&D building of Zongheng Corporation is particularly eye-catching with a giant "big box". This is the unmanned system of Zongheng Kunlun, which realizes the full process automation of unmanned aerial vehicle intelligent storage, autonomous takeoff and landing, automatic charging, data return, and intelligent analysis, truly achieving unmanned operation, full domain response, and full time coverage. "Li Changbin, Senior Solution Engineer of Zongheng Shares, introduced to reporters that this system has completed comprehensive practical verification in multiple scenarios such as security emergency, energy inspection, and ecological protection.

In March of this year, at the "Panda Home Shudao Mountain" super off-road race site in Pengzhou City, Chengdu, Zongheng Corporation's vertical takeoff and landing fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle hovered in the air, continuously cruising at high altitude on tens of kilometers of mountain tracks. The thermal imaging module carried by drones can effectively penetrate dense forests and steep slopes, accurately identify potential risks such as athlete hypothermia, injury, and deviation from the track, and provide key decision-making basis for emergency scheduling of competitions.

Regarding the unified management, coordinated scheduling, and emergency response of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) across the entire region, Zongheng Corporation has established a full chain software platform system covering low altitude UAV dispatch and command management, low altitude operation services, low altitude data center, and low altitude algorithm service center. Li Changbin said that the overly hard technology has also enabled Zongheng Corporation to deeply participate in the preparation of more than 20 international standards, national standards, and industry standards.

In Chengdu High tech Zone, there is also a group of low altitude security "new forces" who are deeply involved in segmented scenarios.

At the exhibition space on the 6th floor of Chengdu Times Starlight Technology Co., Ltd., an intelligent drone named Wolf Warrior W20 caught the reporter's eye. The Wolf Warrior W20 is an 'aerial robot' equipped with artificial intelligence algorithms. By combining flight control algorithms with artificial intelligence modules, it can achieve intelligent obstacle avoidance, precise positioning, intelligent tracking, and other functions. It is the industry's largest intelligent drone in terms of payload capacity and longest endurance. ”Peng Yanping, Chairman of Chengdu Times Starlight Technology Co., Ltd., said.

Nowadays, the Wolf Warrior W20 intelligent drone has been deployed in multiple security and safety scenarios, including forest fire prevention in Yanyuan County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. Peng Yanping introduced that since testing began in December last year, the company has equipped three intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle nests, three W20, and multiple vertical takeoff and landing fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicles, covering cruise radius requirements from 10 kilometers to 100 kilometers, realizing the full process application from reconnaissance and patrol to remote command and control, firefighting and rescue.

In the process of developing low altitude economy, Chengdu city is not only concerned with how to make aircraft "fly", but also naturally carries the industrial gene of "manageable". This has also enabled local low altitude security companies represented by Dagong Bochuang and Zongheng Shares to grow rapidly and form industrial clusters.

Unlike some domestic agglomeration areas that focus on 'aircraft manufacturing' or 'logistics', Chengdu's differentiated characteristics in low altitude economic development lie in its distinct' industrial background 'and' safety priority 'features, achieving a full chain closed loop from scene opening to rule making, especially in the field of' aviation genes+hardcore security ', forming a unique' moat ', "said Tang Jiqiang, director of the Xicai Think Tank and doctoral supervisor at Southwest University of Finance and Economics.

By the end of 2025, Chengdu High tech Zone has gathered 100 core enterprises in the low altitude economy industry chain, with a total output value and revenue of 10 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.7%. It has formed a full chain industrial ecosystem covering equipment materials, key components, complete machine manufacturing, operation services, and safety prevention and control, achieving synchronous layout of safety and development, and dual empowerment of technology and scenarios.

No matter how advanced the technology is, it will ultimately realize its value in practical scenarios. Low altitude security has never been a parameter competition in the laboratory, but rather a solution to real pain points in policing, urban governance, and emergency rescue. The normalized police enterprise collaboration model explored by Chengdu High tech Zone has truly connected the "last mile" of technology from the laboratory to the front line of application.

In 2023, the unmanned aerial vehicle team of Chengdu High tech Public Security Anti Terrorism Special Police Brigade was officially established. This frontline combat team has become the core bridge between local enterprise technology supply and police combat needs.

Chengdu High tech Zone has gathered many low altitude economic industry enterprises, and we will actively connect with them to discuss and research together on the practical needs of low altitude policing, including equipment application and research and development, "said Tian Maokai, deputy captain of Chengdu High tech Public Security Anti Terrorism Special Police Brigade. At present, the drone team has established deep cooperation with about 10 enterprises in the area, covering the entire chain of drone hardware equipment, detection and control, platform development, and other fields.

The core vitality of police enterprise collaboration lies in achieving a two-way flow between the demand side and the supply side, rather than simply "government pays and enterprise supplies". In daily policing work, frontline police officers often face many tricky technical challenges: can they obtain real-time flight images of illegal drones by tracking drone signals? Can the approximate direction of the pilot be determined through the flight screen when the position of the pilot cannot be accurately located? These seemingly demanding practical demands have not been regarded as "impossible tasks", but have instead become the core direction of local enterprise technology research and development.

We exchange the accumulated experience and pain points discovered in practical applications with relevant enterprises without reservation. Enterprises will carry out targeted research and development, and even 'hand rub' drones to simulate the scenarios we propose, repeatedly testing and optimizing, "said Tian Maokai. This closed-loop model of" frontline demand, enterprise research and development, practical testing, iterative optimization "breaks the dilemma of" technology and scenario disconnection "and forms a normalized and institutionalized cooperation mechanism. The pain points of frontline combat have become the "baton" of technology research and development, and the technological innovation of enterprises in turn enhances the combat capability and efficiency of frontline policing. This two-way empowerment model not only solves the core pain points of policing combat, but also provides the most realistic and high-frequency testing scenarios for enterprise technology iteration, achieving a win-win situation for both police and enterprises.

As of now, the drone team of Chengdu High tech Public Security Anti Terrorism Special Police Brigade has deployed multiple types of drones and nest systems, which have achieved regular air patrols and automatic response to police situations in multiple core areas of Chengdu High tech Zone, with a total of over 1000 flights. The preparation work for large-scale events and events often needs to start one month in advance, with on-site surveys, equipment deployment, and full process joint debugging and testing being interrelated. On the day of the competition, police and auxiliary police usually enter the venue 3 hours earlier than athletes, and exit 2 hours later. After completing the task, the biggest wish is often to have a good sleep, "Tian Maokai said with a smile.

The collaborative model between police and enterprises has already extended from traditional police and security scenarios to broader scenarios such as emergency rescue, forest fire prevention, and power inspection, achieving the scale effect of "one-time research and development, multi scenario reuse".

The comprehensive low altitude flight service network jointly built by Zongheng Shares and Pengzhou Transportation has created a new sharing model of "one aircraft for multiple purposes". One system can simultaneously serve multiple scenarios such as event security, traffic inspection, emergency rescue, forest fire prevention, etc. The low altitude control demonstration project jointly created by Dagong Bochuang, Chengdu World Horticultural Expo, and China Mobile has achieved precise control of multimodal data integration. The large-scale implementation of these scenarios not only verifies the technological strength of local enterprises, but also forms a virtuous cycle of "scenario openness technology iteration industrial upgrading", effectively matching low altitude security technology with demand.