Aerial Drone Services

Aerial drone services in China benefit from the deepest domestic UAV manufacturing base in the world — DJI is headquartered in Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta supply chain feeds the local rental fleet with same-day spares. Our pilots fly the full DJI Inspire 3, Mavic 3 Pro Cine and Ronin 4D ecosystem alongside Freefly Alta X heavy-lift platforms carrying ARRI Alexa Mini LF and RED V-Raptor bodies for sweeps over the Shanghai Pudong skyline, the karst peaks of Guilin and Yangshuo, the Avatar-inspired sandstone pillars of Zhangjiajie, the Yellow Mountain ranges of Huangshan and the Tianmen Mountain road approaches.

Here is how this works in practice. FPV pilots handle proximity work for Tmall, JD and Alibaba product films, automotive launches for BYD and NIO, and the high-speed chase sequences that Chinese drama productions now book at Hengdian World Studios. Aerial DPs draw from the operator pool that flew on Frant Gwo's Wandering Earth I and II, Zhang Yimou's heritage features and the Tencent-Netflix Three-Body Problem unit, with NRTA pre-shoot approvals coordinated through our Chinese business partner entity needed for foreign productions.

Chinese airspace is among the most tightly regulated in the world, and our flight planning starts with the CAAC drone operator licensing under the Civil Aviation Administration of China framework and the UAS real-name registration that every commercial flight needs. MIIT spectrum allocation paperwork is filed alongside the local Air Traffic Management bureau notifications and the Public Security Bureau coordination needed for urban operations.

The picture on the ground is more specific. Beijing CBD, the Tiananmen exclusion zone, Tibet, Xinjiang and the protected airspace around PLA military installations are no-fly for foreign productions, and our coordinators design flight paths around them at the first scout. Heritage shoots over the Forbidden City, Great Wall sections at Mutianyu and Badaling, Hengdian's period backlots and the Terracotta Warriors complex need special CAAC and NRTA permits coordinated with the Cultural Relics Bureau and the local film administration office.

A few details matter here. Night drone operations, multi-drone shows for Shanghai International Film Festival and brand-launch events in Shenzhen and Guangzhou run within the service line, with the Qingdao 40 per cent rebate and Hengdian incentive scheme applied to qualifying aerial unit spend through the 17 per cent VAT invoicing handled by the Chinese partner.