The market size of China's low-altitude economy is expected to reach 1.5 trillion yuan (about 211 billion U.S. dollars) in 2025, according to a forecast from the ongoing 2025 China Aviation Industry Conference in Jiangxi Province.

The conference, which opened Saturday in the prefecture-level city Jingdezhen, underlined the robust, sustained growth in the low-altitude economy. It further projected that the market size could exceed 2 trillion yuan by 2030.

Behind the rapid expansion is across-the-board progress in low-altitude equipment. Data show China now has 969 companies registered in the civil unmanned-aircraft product information system, filing 3,191 types of aircraft totaling more than 4.78 million units. In 2015, China's home-grown aircraft RX4E, the world's first four-seat electric aircraft, received a type certificate from the Civil Aviation Administration, signaling a breakthrough in new energy aviation technology.

"The industry keeps growing in scale, with the product portfolio constantly improved, and serialization pacing up. The low-altitude-equipment market is markedly more dynamic, with both the number of enterprises and the variety of products expanding. In 2024 the output value of civil-aerospace products surpassed 160 billion yuan, up 23.6 percent year on year," said Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology Xin Guobin at the opening ceremony of the conference on Saturday.

Spurred by supportive policies, pilot low-altitude economy programs in selected regions including Xinjiang, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Yangtze River Delta have already delivered standout results.

Low-altitude logistics in particular is surging, with more than 140 new cargo routes opened and 48 billion instant delivery orders fulfilled in 2024.

Industry forecasts say China's drone-logistics output could exceed 1 trillion yuan by 2035, with an average annual growth rate of about 20 percent.