Now, Shenzhen is in the transition of the times. After enjoying the huge reform benefits, they hope to make themselves more refined and noble. So in the past five years, they have almost given up low-end manufacturing, cottage machines and any industries that don't look so tall. What followed was the transformation to trade and finance. In the past two years, they have been on the same page as "entrepreneurship". More and more business incubators appeared in the core business district of Shenzhen. At its peak, the world had to sigh: there were too many business incubators, and entrepreneurs were not enough, and drones were an almost seductive force in the entrepreneurial tide of Shenzhen. Relevant data showed that Shenzhen had become a distribution center for drones in China and even around the world. It accounts for about 71% of the global market, and a large number of UAV companies are crowded in the special zone. At present, their products can't fly too far, but they can only stay in the sky of Shenzhen carefully. There have also been some crashes caused by insufficient battery power, but all these have not stopped the UAV from growing wildly in Shenzhen, just like the cottage trend in those years, and Qian Jing seems brighter.

In the long run, UAVs have a very broad Qian Jing, and their application scenarios are as broad as the ocean. The more traditional applications include aerial photography, traffic patrol, exploration and mapping, etc., and the more advanced applications are also on the agenda, such as UAV express delivery and big data collection, etc., but everything needs perfect technology and perfect standards. Today, Shenzhen UAVs have such a passion, but it still takes time to cultivate their internal strength.

UAV, the epitome of Shenzhen's ambition

As the first special economic zone in China, Shenzhen can rapidly grow from a small fishing village to one of the top big cities in China, which is simply a miracle in the history of economic system reform. People here used to do OEM, manufacturing, making fake mobile phones and foreign trade clothes, and were once famous in arachis duranensis. The first batch of people who came to Shenzhen to go to sea basically became rich second generation fathers. According to normal logic, when cities become rich, they will have new ambitions, and they are no longer satisfied with earning hard money. Therefore, since 2111, Shenzhen has started the policy of changing cages for birds. As mentioned above, they have driven away large and small manufacturing factories with the attitude of "driving away". At the same time, housing prices in Shenzhen began to soar. After several rounds of continuous rise, the houses here are no longer affordable for the working class, which, to a certain extent, forced those who lived in manufacturing to start to change careers. They are interested in making some contributions to China, but they can't make any money to buy a house in the short term. On the contrary, those who engage in finance, investment and business incubation have become the new darling of the city, and the trend of the times will always overwhelm their personal advantages.

the author believes that the popularity of drone entrepreneurship is the product of the trend of the times and a classic epitome of Shenzhen's ambition. The application prospect of drones is very broad, and it also conforms to the general trend of "machine substitution". In fact, at the beginning, drones need to complete tasks that humans can't complete, such as aerial photography, survey, etc. The classic memories of our childhood are the animal world, and all the beautiful pictures come from drones; At the time of the 5.12 Wenchuan earthquake, the people of the whole country donated money, materials and medicines in line with the principle of "one party is in trouble and all parties support", many of which were thrown into the disaster area by drones, which may be the brightest moment in the history of drones; In addition, farmers in China have always been suffering from the sadness of "facing the loess and facing the sky", especially when spraying pesticides. Traditional spraying requires farmers' brothers to carry dozens of kilograms of pesticide barrels, hold the spray in their left hand and press the pressure device in their right hand, and rarely wear protective devices, day after day, year after year.

In the rural planning of the new era, plant protection drones will become the standard of agriculture in China. They can take the place of humans to spray pesticides at high altitude, and have natural advantages in work efficiency and coverage area. More importantly, the emergence of plant protection drones is another great liberation of rural labor in China, which has very important social significance. The development of farming tools and the optimization of farming process are expected to keep more rural elites in the countryside and save villages that are almost deserted. Moreover, our fields are so vast, our insect pests are so rampant, and a new generation of farmers are unwilling to endure the hardships of their parents. From this perspective, plant protection drones are bound to become an entrepreneurial outlet.

The rich application scenarios and broad money channels are the primary reasons for betting on drones in Shenzhen. They urgently need to find a new economic pillar to fill the gap after the departure of manufacturing/cottage phones. At the same time, the government is eager to create a large number of new rich people to buy the newly built sky-high houses.

In addition, UAVs all over the world are in a state of chaos, and technical standards, legal provisions and management systems have not been established. Shenzhen is expected to draw up standards with the help of administrative power and promote them to the whole country. For example, since 2115, the Shenzhen UAV Industry Alliance has successively released seven local UAV standards, including General Standards for Civil UAV Systems and General Standards for Single-rotor Helicopter Systems. Once these standards can be implemented, Shenzhen will firmly grasp the core of the UAV, just like TCP/IP in the communication world, and the benefits of "taking the standard in your own hands" need not be repeated.

UAV, please fly slowly

Now, the status of UAV in Shenzhen is a bit like that of the cottage. With the call of entrepreneurs and masters, a large amount of capital began to flood into this industry rapidly. In just a few years, more than 311 UAV enterprises have gathered in Shenzhen, including big bosses such as "Da Jiang" and some unknown shrimps, but their products seem to be awesome, some can fly at high speed. Some have installed big data collectors. For example, after the plant protection drone is upgraded, it can not only help humans spray pesticides, but also collect the growth status of crops during the flight. What's more, it can find out the habits of pests and make targeted spraying countermeasures; Other popular industries will also introduce drones, and the life of courier brothers is extremely bitter. With drones, they can easily find jobs. The future development direction of drones includes automatic and intelligent delivery of parcels, the kind that can cross the smog and accurately invest in unit buildings. . .

UAVs are full of fantasies, endless fantasies, and the above-mentioned high-end UAVs are also very likely to appear, but obviously, not now, they should not be the gimmicks of entrepreneurs. In fact, the most worrying thing about UAV entrepreneurship is not burning money and wasting resources, but that entrepreneurs treat UAVs like shanzhai machines.

In fact, we know that shanzhai is more like a capital game, where a lot of hot money buys ideas, production licenses and chips from MediaTek, which are simply assembled and shipped in one go. According to common sense, the worst drone entrepreneurship in Shenzhen is a replica of a cottage machine, but the impact of drones and cottage machines on society is not the same. The quality of cottage phones is poor, and consumers can't throw them away. However, if the quality of the drone is poor, the impact will be greater. A few days ago, the author often heard that the drone forced the normal passenger plane to change the course, and the drone flew at high altitude. Once it fell halfway, it was accelerated by a free fall, and the impulse generated was no different from a bullet. This is only a quality problem. In addition, there is no clear system regulation for the qualification certification of the drone. This should be a technical activity, simpler than flying a plane and more difficult than driving. However, there is no formal training school, and the UAV needs to build a waterway system and unified planning to fly. Otherwise, it is very prone to collision events. Obviously, the speed of perfection of these things is far less than that of capital running, and it is far behind the planning of entrepreneurs.

In the first Chinese unmanned aerial vehicle racing competition, a contestant from Shenzhen won the championship with a score of 1 minute and 21 seconds, while a certain brand of unmanned aerial vehicle only sold for 2,499 yuan, just like their mobile phones, which was a price-performance ratio. Unfortunately, this historically cheap unmanned aerial vehicle "exploded" during its first test flight. Experts commented: Such quality and speed are simply murder. (Science and technology discovery Constantine/Wen) WeChat: khxx-wk

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