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The China Civil Airports Association released the group standard "Technical Requirements for Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft (eVTOL) Takeoff and Landing Sites" on Wednesday (May 22). This is China’s first technical specification for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft takeoff and landing sites.

According to CCTV News, the China Civil Airports Association released the above standards at the Fifth China Airport Development Conference that day. The standard is divided into 11 chapters, which clearly explain many technical parameters such as the physical characteristics, obstacle restrictions, site selection, structural design, special facilities and equipment of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft landing sites. With the rapid development of China's low-altitude economy, the safe and efficient operation of electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft requires strong support from standardized low-altitude flight infrastructure. Relevant standards for electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft landing sites can better guide the standardized and large-scale construction of low-altitude flight infrastructure.

Four ministries and commissions including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China jointly issued the "Green Aviation Manufacturing Development Outline (2023-2035)" in October 2023, proposing to achieve fixed-point operation of eVTOL in 2025; in December 2023, the China Air Traffic Control Commission organized the formulation of the "National Airspace Basics" Classification Method", newly added Class G airspace with a true height of less than 300 meters and Class W airspace with a true height of less than 120 meters. eVTOL, light and small drones, and general aviation have legal low-altitude airspace. In January this year, the "Safety Management Rules for Civilian Unmanned Aircraft Operations" (CCAR-92) was officially released as the first regulatory document for UAV operations; this year, China's Two Sessions included "low-altitude economy" in the government work report, clearly including Develop low-altitude economy as a new growth engine.

In April this year, the world's first eVTOL aircraft with three certificates was born in China.