A bag of blood travels from the Anyang Central Blood Station to a hospital operating room in the city center in 9 minutes.

By ambulance, the same route takes 35 minutes under normal traffic conditions.

This aerial corridor is not the result of a one-off emergency drill, but a routine route for low-altitude medical delivery in Anyang.

In the process of the low-altitude economy moving from concept to application, Anyang has already turned a batch of scenarios into daily operations.

Currently, Anyang has built 33 drone application scenarios, 12 of which have been certified by the Civil Aviation Administration of China.

From government inspections to mountain logistics, from police operations to medical delivery, these scenarios share common traits: they have frequency, they have data, and they have clear users. The input-output logic of the core scenarios is now basically clear.

From Individual Procurement to Unified Flight Scheduling

Environmental monitoring, cultural relic inspections, traffic enforcement, water conservancy patrols, and scenic area inspections are the earliest and largest category of government flight scenarios in Anyang.

In the past, government departments mostly purchased drones individually, trained pilots individually, and flew individually, with each department building its own system.

Staff at the Anyang Low-Altitude Economy Investment Group did the math: equipment, pilots, and maintenance each configured separately, and once all costs were added up, the investment scale was enormous.

Anyang's solution is centralization.

The low-altitude government command and dispatch platform uniformly manages 21 automated drone hangars, covering Anyang's main urban area and several surrounding counties and districts.

Various bureaus and committees submit flight requests, and the platform coordinates routes in a unified manner. A single flight can simultaneously collect data for multiple departments, with tasks such as environmental monitoring, cultural relic inspections, traffic enforcement, water conservancy patrols, and scenic area inspections integrated into the same dispatch network.

Yunhuan Wanglian, which provides technical support, was jointly established by China Unicom and the Anyang municipal government, focusing on the research, development, and operation of low-altitude intelligent network management and control platforms.

The company's head demonstrated a complete closed-loop process to the reporter: a drone discovers straw burning during routine patrols, AI automatically identifies it, automatically takes photos, and automatically uploads them; the platform dispatches the event to the corresponding department based on its type; staff on site handle the matter and send the results back.

This AI recognition capability has now been expanded to more than 60 scenarios, covering common issues in daily urban management such as illegal street vending and river discharge.

It is understood that to date, government flights in Anyang have exceeded 20,000 sorties.

From decentralized procurement to unified dispatch, the way government drones are used is undergoing a shift.

Livelihood Depth Within the Scenarios

Government flights reflect intensification, while mountain logistics and medical delivery verify the most direct livelihood benefits of low-altitude scenarios.

In Shibanyan Town, Linzhou City, 17 administrative villages are scattered among the peaks of the Taihang Mountains.

Shangping Village, at an altitude of more than 1,100 meters, takes 50 minutes to reach by car from the town center.

In addition, mountain roads are sometimes interrupted by rain, snow, and landslides, making logistics delivery unstable.

The Anyang Postal Company set up a main site at the Shibanyan Town postal branch and established receiving stations in each administrative village, opening 12 drone postal routes with 1 to 2 scheduled flights per day, covering more than 4,000 villagers.

From the town to Shangping Village, items can be delivered in just 7 minutes.

Seven minutes versus 50 minutes. The significance of this postal route is not a one-time demonstration flight in front of news cameras, but a fixed route that takes off and lands on schedule every day.

After the drone postal routes were opened, residents in mountainous areas gained a more stable aerial channel for express deliveries, medicines, and daily supplies, which can still be delivered during rain, snow, or when roads are blocked.

Media outlets have previously produced special reports on this route, calling it one of the solutions to the difficulty of getting logistics up the mountain.

The livelihood account for medical delivery is even more direct.

The Anyang Central Blood Station led the opening of blood delivery routes connecting medical institutions such as the city's New People's Hospital and Cancer Hospital.

Blood products are extremely time-sensitive. Compressing a 35-minute drive to 9 minutes makes the difference between timely treatment and delay for emergency care.

This project won the Best Mobile Smart City Innovation Award at the 2025 GSMA Global Mobile Awards.

Police aviation represents another facet of Anyang's low-altitude scenarios: an extreme test of reliability.

Twenty police automated hangars in the main urban area form a patrol system that flies immediately upon receiving an alarm, with drones deployed in tasks such as event security, drug eradication, and traffic diversion.

Poppy monitoring cameras and AI recognition systems developed in cooperation with the Blue Sky Laboratory have been deployed in public security systems in multiple locations.

Products that can enter actual police operations have already passed a rigorous round of reliability screening.

The Backstage Engineering of Low-Altitude Scenarios

Low-altitude scenarios do not emerge out of thin air. Behind every drone that takes off, there is support from communications, testing, talent, and other conditions.

In terms of communications, the operation of the low-altitude government command and dispatch platform relies on the low-altitude communication network built in Anyang.

The operator, Yunhuan Wanglian, focuses on building the low-altitude intelligent network platform, providing stable communication support for drones flying in the air.

Testing is another pillar. The Henan Provincial Drone Quality Inspection Center is the first provincial-level drone quality inspection center in China, with 15 professional laboratories and a 50,000-square-meter outdoor testing ground. Its testing parameters have expanded from an initial 47 to 308, with cumulative testing of more than 500 drone sorties and business covering 19 provinces and cities.

Drone companies can complete testing from components to finished products locally, without having to travel far.

Talent is equally critical. The Taihang Low-Altitude Space Application Vocational Training School has cumulatively trained more than 5,000 certified pilots; the Quanfeng system has trained more than 50,000 professional pilots; and local institutions have opened more than 20 aviation-related majors.

Behind every automated hangar and every fixed route, there is a need for people to monitor, maintain, and dispatch.

Anyang's pilot supply is the key to these scenarios being able to operate over the long term rather than being one-off flights.

Communications, testing, and talent are several important supports that keep Anyang's low-altitude scenarios running.

These scenarios are not driven by subsidies, but gradually grown from actual demand after laying the necessary infrastructure and building the necessary capabilities.

Government flights have smoothed out the platform, logistics routes have clarified the costs, and medical delivery has proven the timeliness.

The data, standards, and experience accumulated in each scenario are paving the way for the next one.

The question most often asked about the low-altitude economy is what it can do.

Anyang's answer is: it can deliver express packages up the mountain, deliver blood into the operating room, and enable a single flight to serve several government departments at once.

None of these things looks big on its own, but each one has real, tangible value.

For a third- or fourth-tier city pursuing the low-altitude economy, there is no need to rush to tell a grand story. Doing a few specific scenarios solidly is itself the most powerful answer.