{"id":767,"date":"2024-06-03T09:13:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T01:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/?p=767"},"modified":"2024-06-03T09:13:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T01:13:23","slug":"come-to-hainan-for-an-exciting-low-altitude-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/come-to-hainan-for-an-exciting-low-altitude-adventure.html","title":{"rendered":"Come to Hainan for an exciting low-altitude adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local Chongqing resident Yang Baike, in his eighties, discovered a new perspective for observing Changshou Lake — by taking to the skies. Accompanied by his family, Yang completed his first aerial adventure on a floatplane at the Changshou Lake water sports base.<\/p>\n

Low-altitude tourism is becoming increasingly popular among tourists as China expands civilian access to low-altitude airspace, typically defined as the vertical range from 1,000 to 3,000 meters above ground.<\/p>\n

On the first day of this year’s May Day holiday alone, more than 1,000 visitors like Yang visited the same water sports base in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipally.<\/p>\n

A growing number of tourist attractions have launched low-altitude flight and sightseeing programs in recent years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, for instance, Fengjie County in Chongqing launched low-altitude helicopter tours, offering a new perspective for tourists to enjoy the scenery of Kuimen, the entrance to the Yangtze River’s deepest gorges.<\/p>\n

Moreover, aerial sports such as parachuting and skydiving are favored by more sports fans.<\/p>\n

The airspace near the Dujiangyan irrigation system has become a hit among Chinese parachuting lovers because of its breathtaking aerial view. Many people posted vlogs and travel notes on social media to record their skydiving experiences there.<\/p>\n

Low-altitude tourism is expanding across China. Hainan, a leading province in China’s low-altitude tourism, recorded 13,700 hours of flight time, 152,000 takeoffs and landings, and 364,800 passengers in 2023.<\/p>\n

Chongqing aims at opening at least two low-altitude air routes for tourists to enjoy aerial views of the city’s landmarks. The Southern Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen plans to deploy more than 600 low-altitude drone launch and landing platforms and operate over 220 urban drone routes by 2025.\"\"<\/p>\n

The growing popularity also brings much profit to this emerging industry.<\/p>\n

“The low-altitude airspace is a no-man’s land with huge growth potential that could nurture a trillion-yuan new industry,” said Shen Xiangyang, founding director of the International Digital Economy Academy in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.<\/p>\n

The size of China’s low-altitude economy by 2023 is estimated at more than 500 billion yuan, with its scale expected to rise to 2 trillion yuan by 2030, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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