On 15 November, the Northwest Regional Administration of Civil Aviation of China issued the "Civil unmanned aerial vehicle operating permit" to Xi'an JingDong Tianhong Science and Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of JingDong Group. Explicitly, "logistics distribution (limited pilot enterprises)" business goes into the enterprise business projects. The acquisition of business qualification marks that Xi'an JingDong Tianhong Technology Co., Ltd. officially becomes the world's first province to engage in terminal logistics UAV logistics and distribution business with license.
The issuance of the license marks an important step forward in the management license, operation management, policy guidance and management exploration of the UAV logistics distribution in China.
JingDong gets the first Provincial UAV Logistics license.
▲JingDong terminal distribution UAV is completing terminal distribution mission in Shanxi.
From airspace approval to operating permit,
Logistics UAV Business ushers in a New era
In December 2017, JingDong Group Co., Ltd. became the pilot project of UAV Air Logistics Multimodal Transport Innovation in Shanxi Province. By the end of October, more than 13,000 regular flights and more than 76,000 kilometers had been flown in Shanxi, realizing safe operation with "zero error".
It is reported that logistics distribution (limited pilot enterprises) business scope is for Shanxi Province, JingDong became the world's first provincial scope of drone logistics licensing enterprises.
JingDong gets the first Provincial UAV Logistics license
▲JingDong unmanned aerial vehicle carries on the branch line to have the man-machine and the terminal UAV coordinated transportation verification.
To extend the pilot results of Shanxi civil aviation to the whole country.
To Build UAV into Intelligent Logistics Infrastructure
It has been learned that up to now, JingDong drones have carried out regular logistics distribution in a total of seven provinces in Shanxi, Jiangsu, Hainan, Qinghai, Guangdong, Fujian, and Guangxi, effectively solving the vast rural areas. The last kilometer distribution problem in inconvenient areas allows intelligent logistics to reach more areas and more people.
based on the accumulated experience in intelligent logistics for a long time, JingDong UAV is meeting the maximum distribution efficiency under different application scenarios through the three-level intelligent logistics system, while exploring the establishment of executable. The safety operation standard of logistics UAV can be considered to lead the development of Chinese logistics UAV. The approval of the world's first provincial-based drone logistics distribution license marks the arrival of the era of large-scale commercial landing of logistics drones.
