EHang partners with Beijing Fangshan District Government to launch national headquarters for low-altitude emergency rescue equipment

EHang announced a strategic partnership with the Fangshan District Government. Together, the two parties aim to advance the low-altitude emergency rescue sector by establishing EHang’s national headquarters for low-altitude emergency rescue equipment in Fangshan District, Beijing with top-level mapping of its multiple application scenarios and complete industrial chain. This initiative seeks to position the area as a hub for the low-altitude emergency rescue industry and a pilot demonstration zone for related new technologies, products and scenarios, fostering an innovative model for "low-altitude + emergency" industrial ecosystem.

On December 25, the Beijing Low-Altitude Safety Emergency Industrial Park was inaugurated in Beijing Fangshan District, accompanied by a comprehensive exercise of general aviation emergency rescue. During the event, EHang reached a strategic partnership agreement with Fangshan District Government. The ceremony was attended by distinguished guests, including representatives from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (“CAAC”), Chinese Academy of Engineering (“CAE”), Department of Science and Technology and Informatization of the Ministry of Emergency Management, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Beijing Municipal Emergency Management Bureau and Fangshan District Government of Beijing. Also present were EHang's Huazhi Hu, Founder, Chairman, and CEO; Zhao Wang, Chief Operating Officer, and Conor Yang, Chief Financial Officer.

According to the agreement, EHang will locate its National Headquarters for Low-Altitude Emergency Rescue Equipment in Fangshan District, Beijing, for emergency rescue operation business. The Fangshan District Government will actively coordinate industrial funds to support this initiative and related projects.

In 2020, EHang launched the world’s first large-payload intelligent aerial firefighting emergency solution - the EH216-F, a pilotless eVTOL. Capable of reaching altitudes of up to 600 meters, the EH216-F offers precise directional firefighting competencies, addressing critical challenges in combating high-rise building fires. It has completed comprehensive technical tests by the China National Fire-Fighting Equipment Quality Supervision Testing Center.

At this event, EHang showcased its comprehensive low-altitude firefighting emergency solutions, from the survey and early warning exercise with its small unmanned aerial vehicles to the firefighting drill with the EH216-F, demonstrating its outstanding advantages of quick response, unmanned operation, remote fleet management, which received high praise from attending guests.

Building on this partnership, the two parties will also collaborate to establish a comprehensive Emergency Firefighting Industrial Park in Fangshan District. This Park will integrate functions such as R&D, testing, manufacturing, sales, maintenance and training, fostering coordinated upstream and downstream development. Key facilities are to be established in the Parks for EHang emergency rescue products, such as an innovation incubation center, a manufacturing base with large-scale intelligent production lines, a smart command-and-control center, and a multi-scenario testing and training center.

Bo Yang, Secretary of the Fangshan District Committee of Beijing, and Zhixin Di, Head of Fangshan District, presented appointment letters to Yuanyuan Yang, former Director of the CAAC, Daxiang Liu, Academician of the CAE, Zhao Wang, COO of EHang, and others, as expert consultants for the Beijing low-altitude safety and emergency industry.

Daxiang Liu, Academician of the CAE, said in his keynote speech, "The low-altitude economy is new powerful engine leading the high-quality development of China's economy. Enhancing aviation emergency rescue capabilities is a major livelihood project that concerns the entire society. Opening up the low-altitude airspace, speeding up airport construction, developing proprietary high-quality aircraft, and establishing an air intelligent information flight management system will promote greater development in low-altitude emergency rescue."

Yuanyuan Yang, former Director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, stated: "New types of civil unmanned aerial vehicles will play an important role in the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of emergency rescue operations."