EHang Companions with Beijing Fangshan District Authorities to Launch Nationwide Headquarters for Low-Altitude Emergency Rescue Gear By Investing.com

GUANGZHOU, China, Dec. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — EHang Holdings Restricted (Nasdaq: EH) (“EHang” or the Firm”), the world’s main City Air Mobility (UAM) know-how platform firm, introduced a strategic partnership with the Individuals’s Authorities of Fangshan District, Beijing (“Fangshan District Authorities”). Collectively, the 2 events intention to advance the low-altitude emergency rescue sector by establishing EHang’s nationwide headquarters for low-altitude emergency rescue gear in Fangshan District, Beijing with top-level mapping of its a number of software situations and full industrial chain. This initiative seeks to place the world as a hub for the low-altitude emergency rescue business and a pilot demonstration zone for associated new applied sciences, merchandise and situations, fostering an progressive mannequin for “low-altitude + emergency” industrial ecosystem.

Picture: EHang and the Beijing Fangshan District Authorities signing the strategic cooperation settlement

Picture: The opening ceremony of the Beijing Low-Altitude Security Emergency Industrial Park and the excellent train of basic aviation emergency rescue

On December 25, the Beijing Low-Altitude Security Emergency Industrial Park was inaugurated in Beijing Fangshan District, accompanied by a complete train of basic aviation emergency rescue. In the course of the occasion, EHang reached a strategic partnership settlement with Fangshan District Authorities. The ceremony was attended by distinguished visitors, together with representatives from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), Chinese language Academy of Engineering (CAE (NYSE:)), Division of Science and Expertise and Informatization of the Ministry of Emergency Administration, Ministry of Trade and Data Expertise, Beijing Municipal Emergency Administration Bureau and Fangshan District Authorities of Beijing. Additionally current have been EHang’s Huazhi Hu, Founder, Chairman, and CEO; Zhao Wang, Chief Working Officer, and Conor Yang, Chief Monetary Officer.

In line with the settlement, EHang will find its Nationwide Headquarters for Low-Altitude Emergency Rescue Gear in Fangshan District, Beijing, for emergency rescue operation enterprise. The Fangshan District Authorities will actively coordinate industrial funds to help this initiative and associated initiatives.

Picture: Show of EHang’s EH216-F (firefighting eVTOL),  EH216-S (pioltess passenger-carrying eVTOL) and EH216-L (logistics eVTOL) and others

In 2020, EHang launched the world’s first large-payload clever aerial firefighting emergency resolution – the EH216-F, a pilotless electrical vertical take-off and touchdown plane (eVTOL). Able to reaching altitudes of as much as 600 meters, the EH216-F provides exact directional firefighting competencies, addressing vital challenges in combating high-rise constructing fires. It has accomplished complete technical checks by the China Nationwide Fireplace-Preventing Gear High quality Supervision Testing Middle.

At this occasion, EHang showcased its complete low-altitude firefighting emergency options, from the survey and early warning train with its small unmanned aerial automobiles (UAVs) to the firefighting drill with the EH216-F, demonstrating its excellent benefits of fast response, unmanned  operation, distant fleet administration, which obtained excessive reward from attending visitors.

Picture: EH216-F performs emergency firefighting drill

Constructing on this partnership, the 2 events can even collaborate to determine a complete Emergency Firefighting Industrial Park in Fangshan District. This Park will combine features resembling R&D, testing, manufacturing, gross sales, upkeep and coaching, fostering coordinated upstream and downstream improvement. Key amenities are to be established within the Parks for EHang emergency rescue merchandise, resembling an innovation incubation heart, a producing base with large-scale clever manufacturing traces, a sensible command-and-control heart, and a multi-scenario testing and coaching heart.

Moreover, the 2 events will collaborate to develop a variety of low-altitude emergency mission situations in Beijing Fangshan District, together with city firefighting, forest fireplace extinguishing, industrial emergency rescue, catastrophe reduction, and inspection. Past that, different low-altitude software situations, resembling logistics transportation, cultural tourism sightseeing, and passenger transportation, can even be explored and developed. To help these, a expertise coaching heart is deliberate to be established to domesticate operation and upkeep workers for numerous emergency and rescue missions with completely different plane, accumulating experience and setting a brand new benchmark for the low-altitude emergency rescue business.

In September 2023, the Motion (WA:) Plan for the Growth of Key Areas in Security Emergency Gear (2023-2025) was collectively issued by China’s Ministry of Trade and Data Expertise, the Nationwide Growth and Reform Fee, the Ministry of Science and Expertise, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Emergency Administration. It proposes to make the most of high-tech and high-effect security emergency gear for key software situations resembling varied pure disasters, city fires, and emergency life rescue. Particularly, UAVs have been highlighted in the important thing gear checklist with the give attention to analysis and improvement, promotion, and industrial chain improvement. This Plan goals to attain an industrial scale of over RMB1 trillion in key areas of security emergency gear by 2025 in China.

In the course of the occasion, Bo Yang, Secretary of the Fangshan District Committee of Beijing, and Zhixin Di, Head of Fangshan District, introduced appointment letters to Yuanyuan Yang, former Director of the CAAC, Daxiang Liu, Academician of the CAE, Zhao Wang, COO of EHang, and others, as skilled consultants for the Beijing low-altitude security and emergency business.

Daxiang Liu, Academician of the CAE, stated in his keynote speech, “The low-altitude economic system is new highly effective engine main the high-quality improvement of China’s economic system. Enhancing aviation emergency rescue capabilities is a serious livelihood mission that issues the complete society. Opening up the low-altitude airspace, rushing up airport development, growing proprietary high-quality plane, and establishing an air clever info flight administration system will promote higher improvement in low-altitude emergency rescue.”

Yuanyuan Yang, former Director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, acknowledged: “New varieties of civil unmanned aerial automobiles will play an necessary position within the security, effectivity, and sustainability of emergency rescue operations.”

In recent times, Beijing Fangshan District has made notable strides in growing the low-altitude security emergency business. As a pilot zone for home basic aviation gear innovation and software within the aviation emergency rescue space and the protection protecting gear industrial cluster, it’s totally dedicated to creating an clever emergency gear industrial ecosystem represented by UAVs and robots. Because the southwest gateway of Capital Beijing, Fangshan District has important geographical benefits, favorable airspace circumstances, and numerous situations with urbans, plains, farms, forests, hills and mountains, making it have large demand for emergency rescue gear throughout a number of fields. In line with the Motion Plan for Growth of Low-Altitude Security Emergency Trade in Fangshan District (2024“2027) issued within the second half of this 12 months, it units the objectives by 2027 to determine a manufacturing-oriented low-altitude security emergency industrial park; to attain large-scale purposes of latest varieties of low-altitude gear characterised by unmanned, digital, and clever applied sciences in aviation emergency rescue and good logistics fields; to comprehend pilot operations of city air mobility; and to type greater than 5 replicable and scalable software situations.

Wujun Gao, Deputy Head of Fangshan District in Beijing, acknowledged: “Fangshan District is repeatedly enhancing the aviation emergency business spectrum, gathering high-quality enterprises resembling EHang, and has shaped an aviation emergency rescue business ecosystem that integrates product analysis and improvement, manufacturing, technical companies, and help companies. This gives sturdy help for enhancing the capital’s emergency rescue system. The district can even proceed to leverage its personal useful resource endowment to offer complete and full-chain service ensures for low-altitude security emergency enterprises, aiding of their speedy progress and business upgrading.”

Zhao Wang, Chief Working Officer of EHang, commented, “The mixing of the low-altitude economic system and emergency firefighting industries will make a major contribution to social safety, public companies, and financial progress. As a world chief within the low-altitude economic system, EHang is dedicated to advancing the purposes of UAVs in emergency rescue and driving innovation in good metropolis administration. By finding our Nationwide Headquarters for Low-Altitude Emergency Rescue Gear in Beijing Fangshan District, we intention to leverage its main benefits in aviation emergency companies to additional speed up the event of the low-altitude emergency business. Moreover, we’ll capitalize on Capital Beijing’s affect to create a high-quality demonstration for the nationwide low-altitude emergency administration system. With Fangshan District as the place to begin, EHang plans to progressively set up regional emergency rescue facilities throughout the nation to reinforce the safeguarding of lives and property whereas advancing the low-altitude economic system business towards higher-quality improvement. We aspire to set new fashions and benchmarks for the worldwide ˜low-altitude + emergency’ sector.”

About EHang

EHang (Nasdaq: EH) is the world’s main city air mobility (UAM) know-how platform firm. Our mission is to allow secure, autonomous, and eco-friendly air mobility accessible to everybody. EHang gives clients in varied industries with unmanned aerial car (UAV) techniques and options: air mobility (together with passenger transportation and logistics), good metropolis administration, and aerial media options. EHang’s flagship product EH216-S has obtained the world’s first sort certificates, manufacturing certificates and normal airworthiness certificates for pilotless eVTOL issued by the Civil Aviation Administration of China. Because the forerunner of cutting-edge UAV applied sciences and business options within the world UAM business, EHang continues to discover the boundaries of the sky to make flying applied sciences profit our life in good cities. For extra info, please go to  www.ehang.com.

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