The 9th World Drone Congress 2025 & 2025 International Low-Altitude Economy and Unmanned Systems Expo is about to open!

"The 9th World Drone Congress 2025 & 2025 International Low-Altitude Economy and Unmanned Systems Expo / The 10th Shenzhen International UAV Expo" will be held from May 23 to 25 at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center.

Highlights of the 9th World Drone Congress 2025 & International Low-Altitude Economy and Unmanned Systems Expo / Shenzhen International UAV Expo

Since 2017, Shenzhen has successfully held eight editions of the World Drone Congress, with a cumulative total of more than 300,000 domestic and international delegates from more than 140 countries and regions attending and exhibiting, 13 countries became guest countries of honor of the Congress, and more than 3,000 domestic and international distinguished guests delivered keynote speeches at the Congress forums, greatly promoting exchanges in the drone industry between China and other countries.

As a grand event serving as the "global drone industry wind vane," the 9th World Drone Congress 2025 will attract more than 10,000 industry experts, scholars, and entrepreneurs from more than 100 countries and regions around the world to attend, focusing on themes such as drones and the low-altitude economy, low-altitude digital transportation, low-altitude flight services, the eVTOL industry ecosystem, low-altitude infrastructure and management platforms, low-altitude airspace opening and management, logistics and emergency drones, and artificial intelligence robots, and will hold more than 100 industry activities including summits, forums, and technical exchange meetings, with more than 550 domestic and international academicians, experts, and entrepreneurs gathering together to jointly decode the new quality productive forces of the low-altitude economy.

2024 World Drone Congress expert keynote speeches

During the same period, the Congress will hold the "2nd International Low-Altitude Economy and Unmanned Systems Expo, the 10th Shenzhen International UAV Expo" (abbreviated as: UASE UAV Expo), with an exhibition scale of 66,000 square meters, gathering 825 high-quality low-altitude enterprises from home and abroad and more than 5,000 new products of unmanned system equipment, and through activities such as "theme congress, product display, technical exchange, and speed racing competition," create a grand event that promotes the innovative development of the low-altitude economy, with an estimated more than 100,000 people participating in the forums and the expo.

2024 Shenzhen International UAV Expo

This edition of the UASE UAV Expo will open all four halls, Halls 1, 6, 7, and 9, at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center (Futian). Compared with the previous edition, 3 exhibition halls have been added, the exhibition area has increased by 31,000 square meters, and the number of exhibiting enterprises has increased by 366. Exhibitors from all sides will present their latest technologies and products. Focusing on the achievements of high-quality development of the low-altitude economy, it will display the latest products and latest technologies in hot areas such as low-altitude intelligent manufacturing, drones, eVTOL, artificial intelligence robots, unmanned systems, intelligent unmanned vehicles, unmanned ships, chips, aviation models, low-altitude flight services, and the entire unmanned systems industry chain. It will also display the development and application achievements of drones in multiple fields such as county development, emergency rescue, logistics and transportation, agricultural plant protection, power inspection, forest protection, police security, aerial photography and surveying, firefighting and emergency response, and low-altitude flight services.

This expo will also present the industry with a high-level competitive feast, including multiple competition activities such as the Drone FPV Racing Competition, the 2025 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Drone Racing Championship, the Drone Football Competition, and the Drone Fun Obstacle Race, to meet the needs of participants of different age groups and different interests and hobbies.

Drone Football Competition

Mixed participation across multiple age groups

After nine years of accumulation, inheritance, and innovative upgrading, the World Drone Congress and Expo has become an important activity for China's drone industry to carry out foreign scientific, technological, and economic trade exchanges, and is a professional and international landmark brand expo that promotes international exchange and cooperation. This Congress will comprehensively display the world's latest integrated sea, land, and air products such as drones, unmanned systems, unmanned vehicles, and unmanned ships, spread cutting-edge technologies, and release industry insights. Please look forward to it!

Source: 2025 World Drone Congress Organizing Committee, "Shenzhen Industry and Information Technology" WeChat official account

Reviewer: Qiao Huiqing