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Wencheng County secures 30-strong order of EHang’s EH216‑S, with a purchase plan for 270 additional units

EHang has signed a coop­er­a­tion agree­ment with the gov­ern­ment of Wencheng Coun­ty, Wen­zhou City in Chi­na’s Zhe­jiang Province, to joint­ly devel­op UAM and sup­port­ing pub­lic ser­vice ecosys­tem for the low-alti­tude econ­o­my.

Based on this coop­er­a­tion, Wencheng Coun­ty Trans­porta­tion Devel­op­ment Group Co., Ltd. has signed a pur­chase agree­ment with EHang for 30 EH216‑S unmanned air­craft.

It has already paid 50 per cent of the total con­tract price as a pre-deliv­ery down pay­ment, with the remain­der payable upon deliv­ery.

Addi­tion­al­ly, the cus­tomer plans to pur­chase an addi­tion­al 270 units of EH216‑S by the end of 2026 and already paid a non-refund­able deposit.

Zhen­hai Xing, Chair­man of Wencheng Coun­ty Trans­porta­tion Devel­op­ment Group Co., Ltd., said: “EHang is a lead­ing com­pa­ny in Chi­na’s emerg­ing low-alti­tude econ­o­my indus­try, and their EH216‑S air­craft has already obtained the air­wor­thi­ness cer­ti­fi­ca­tions, putting them at the fore­front of the indus­try.

“Togeth­er with EHang, we will seize the oppor­tu­ni­ties in the indus­try, active­ly explore and demon­strate a wide range of low-alti­tude appli­ca­tions, estab­lish aer­i­al sight­see­ing tourism routes, cul­ti­vate a thriv­ing ecosys­tem of low-alti­tude econ­o­my ser­vice enter­pris­es, and strength­en the recruit­ment and train­ing of spe­cial­ized tal­ent.

He added: “By expand­ing the use of low-alti­tude tech­nolo­gies in pub­lic ser­vice domains, we aim to dri­ve the clus­ter­ing and accel­er­at­ed devel­op­ment of the low-alti­tude indus­try here in Wencheng.”

As a top ten eco­log­i­cal tourism city in Zhe­jiang Province, it is a typ­i­cal demon­stra­tion coun­ty for low-alti­tude econ­o­my appli­ca­tion sce­nar­ios in the south­east­ern coastal moun­tain­ous areas.

The coun­ty has estab­lished a com­mit­tee to over­see the high-qual­i­ty devel­op­ment of the low-alti­tude econ­o­my, and has for­mu­lat­ed a detailed imple­men­ta­tion plan, aim­ing to trans­form Wencheng into a pio­neer­ing low-alti­tude econ­o­my zone by 2026.

This will involve cre­at­ing more than 10 show­case appli­ca­tions, which will expand the local low-alti­tude econ­o­my to achieve over RMB1 bil­lion in mar­ket size of oper­a­tional ser­vice and open up mul­ti­ple low-alti­tude air routes.

The city will join EHang to spear­head the devel­op­ment of aer­i­al tourism and explore inno­v­a­tive com­mer­cial appli­ca­tions. This col­lab­o­ra­tion aims to pro­vide aer­i­al sight­see­ing expe­ri­ences for vis­i­tors, util­is­ing the coun­ty’s wealth of scenic nat­ur­al attrac­tions.

With­in this year, Wencheng Coun­ty plans to set up mul­ti­ple aer­i­al sight­see­ing routes at Tiand­ing Lake, the Baizhangji Falls, the canyon, and the ver­dant forests, as well as estab­lish reg­u­lar oper­a­tions of eVTOL air­craft.

Look­ing ahead, EHang and Wencheng Coun­ty will work togeth­er in estab­lish­ing a low-alti­tude indus­try chain across the region, includ­ing demon­stra­tion, sales, main­te­nance, and oper­a­tions of pilot­less pas­sen­ger-car­ry­ing aer­i­al vehi­cle, to cre­ate momen­tum and advan­tages that dri­ves the devel­op­ment of econ­o­my and UAM ecosys­tem with­in Zhe­jiang Province.

Mr. Huazhi Hu, Founder, Chair­man and CEO of EHang, stat­ed, “EHang is con­tin­u­ous­ly expand­ing low-alti­tude use cas­es glob­al­ly, striv­ing to advance the com­mer­cial deploy­ment of pas­sen­ger-car­ry­ing pilot­less eVTOL air­crafts.

“In col­lab­o­ra­tion with Wencheng Coun­ty Trans­porta­tion Devel­op­ment Group Co., Ltd., we share a goal to devel­op var­i­ous pilot­less low-alti­tude use cas­es, pro­mote the estab­lish­ment of a low-alti­tude oper­a­tion bench­mark in Zhe­jiang, and cre­ate a com­pet­i­tive advan­tage for the low-alti­tude econ­o­my in the East Chi­na region.”

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