China Breaks a World Record in UAV Production

It was reported that the number of civilian UAVs delivered in China in 2023 exceeded 3 million 170 thousand and the production volume of general aviation manufacturing increased by approximately 60 percent on an annual basis, reaching over 51 billion yuan.

Deputy Minister of Industry and Informatics Shan Zhongde, at the press conference held by the State Council Press Office of China today, pointed out that the general aviation equipment manufacturing industry represented by UAVs has developed rapidly in recent years, and said, according to inexact statistics, the number of civilian UAVs in China by the end of 2023. He stated that the number of development enterprises exceeds 2 and the number of UAV products in mass production is over a thousand.