The development level of UAV industry is not only an important indicator to measure the national military strength, scientific and technological innovation and manufacturing level, but also a key support to promote high-quality economic development and promote people's better life. In recent years, as one of the strategic emerging industries, the R & D, manufacturing and application of UAV have attracted great attention in China. In the past "13th five year plan" stage, the development of UAV in China has achieved remarkable results. During the "14th five year plan" period, with the increasingly clear development path and direction, China's UAV industry will go further.

Achievements in the development of UAVs in China

During the 13th Five Year Plan period, with the continuous dissipation of demographic dividend and the continuous enhancement of automation demand, the development of UAVs in China gradually transited from the initial stage to the high-speed growth stage. In addition to the important proportion of application and demand, the market scale and growth rate also achieved good results. According to relevant data, the output value of China's UAV industry has reached 50 billion yuan in 2019, and the number of UAV enterprises has exceeded 6000. It is expected that the development of domestic UAVs will exceed 100 billion by 2023.
In this process, the continuous favorable factors such as policy, capital and enterprises gradually show many obvious characteristics to promote industrial development. Among them, the most remarkable point is the rapid rise of civil UAVs. With the opening of the two major markets of consumer grade and industrial grade, civil UAVs easily exceed the development scale of military UAVs and become the key driving force for the development and growth of UAV industry. Relevant data show that by 2020, China's civil UAV market has exceeded 21 billion yuan
At the same time, the agglomeration effect of UAV industry is becoming more and more prominent. On the one hand, focusing on UAV body manufacturing, system integration, parts production and consumer services, there are more and more UAV enterprises, and powerful and high-quality enterprises begin to emerge frequently; On the other hand, China's leading UAV industrial parks have sprung up. UAV development has begun to gather in South China, North China, central China and other major regions. Industries continue to move from dispersion to agglomeration, and the trend of development clustering and regionalization has intensified.
In addition, the industry application is becoming more and more extensive, diverse and in-depth, and the relevant supporting development is becoming more and more perfect. In terms of application, UAV has become increasingly saturated in consumer fields such as aerial photography, leisure and entertainment. At the same time, its application in industrial fields such as logistics and transportation, agriculture and plant protection is expanding rapidly. In terms of supporting facilities, the frequent release of UAV policies, the introduction of new UAV occupations, the rise of UAV talent training market and the development of UAV post service market also bring good news to the development of the industry.
Future challenges and trends are becoming increasingly prominent
However, while achieving good development and obvious positive results, China's UAV industry has encountered certain resistance and problems. For example, the cost of UAV is too high, the penetration rate is low, the endurance capacity is insufficient, professionals are scarce, safety accidents are frequent, the market monopoly is obvious, the industry competition is too fierce, etc. These have seriously hindered or slowed down the development pace of China's UAV industry, and need to be solved effectively from all aspects in the future. Fortunately, the current situation and problems are clear at a glance, which makes the development trend and direction of UAV in China increasingly clear.
In this form, during the "14th five year plan" period, promoting the transformation of China's UAV industry has become the primary task. At present, the application of UAV in entertainment consumption fields such as aerial photography has become increasingly saturated, and industrial applications such as agriculture, plant protection, logistics distribution and traffic management have become more and more popular. In order to promote the further growth of market scale and accelerate the transformation from consumer market to industrial market, it is necessary. At the same time, the increase of UAV applications also requires us to accelerate the transformation of UAV single market to multi market, and the transformation of UAV applications from breadth to depth.
It is also the only way to grasp the market demand of UAVs and promote the integrated, professional, diversified, intelligent and personalized development of UAVs. Integration emphasizes the integration of various information technologies and core components; Specialization emphasizes the specialty of technology, function, talent and service; Diversification includes more diversified product types, application fields and price choices; Intelligence and personalization are reflected in more intelligent product functions, more normalization of man-machine cooperation, and more personalized and accurate product services. It is very important to speed up the five modernizations!
Of course, for the existing problems of UAV industry, strengthening industrial supervision and upgrading is also the top priority. Whether it is vicious competition in the industry, poor product quality, chaotic industry order and frequent product safety, it is due to the lack of reasonable supervision and effective control of relevant departments on industry, products, enterprises, technology and application. Based on this, on the one hand, our government needs to strengthen departmental supervision and improve the supervision system and law; On the other hand, we also need industries and enterprises to give play to their regulatory value and work together to ensure the healthy and orderly progress of the industry.