Future Valley Park in Auto City Gives Low-altitude Economy a Lift

As the traditional automotive industry accelerates its transition to smart technologies, Shanghai International Automobile City is focusing on creating an integrated land-air transportation innovation ecosystem and supporting the takeoff of the low-altitude economy in Jiading.

The Future Valley Park, located within Shanghai International Automobile City, has recently passed completion acceptance and will serve as an incubation base for low-altitude economy-related industries.

Yang Yan, project director of the park and general manager of Shanghai Anji Huichuang Technology Development Co Ltd, said that the park is part of Tongji University's national-level future industrial park. With a floor area of 20,000 square meters, 2,200sqm have already been leased to two laboratories from the university's School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics.

The park will focus on future transportation, smart manufacturing and low-carbon energy.

In addition, companies in the low-altitude economy sector, such as Linyang Aviation Technology (Shanghai) Co Ltd, have already signed agreements to move in. Linyang Aviation will accelerate collaborative development with Shanghai International Automobile City, jointly building a benchmark for innovation in the smart low-altitude economy.

"In the future, our business team will be stationed in Shanghai International Automobile City to engage in in-depth industry-academia-research collaboration with the park and universities, focusing on the eVTOL industry and accelerating the transformation and application of research outcomes," said Wang Guocheng, general manager of Linyang Aviation.

Shanghai International Automobile City is actively advancing the establishment of the Shanghai Land-Air Integrated Transportation Innovation Consortium. As one of the initiators, Shanghai Songhong Intelligent Automotive Technology Co Ltd is promoting the extension of the automotive industry into low-altitude aircraft. Songhong has secured 300 meters of genuine low-altitude airspace and is deeply involved in formulating the "Shanghai Airworthiness Certification Inspection and Testing Standards."