On October 21, the China Government Procurement Network published two university bidding announcements on the same day. One is in Wuxi and the other in Shenzhen, both related to the low-altitude economy.
Following the inclusion of the low-altitude economy in the Government Work Report, universities have significantly accelerated their actions: UAV-related majors are being opened successively, and laboratories and research platforms are being approved one after another. One focuses on building a hardware foundation for teaching and research, while the other aims to develop a city-level flight service system.
Wuxi University: CNY 3.92 Million for an Integrated Air-Ground-Water Experimental Platform
Let's start with Wuxi University. The full name of the project is the "Wuxi University Low-Altitude Technology Innovation Laboratory Project", with the number JSZC-320200-HCCG-G2026-0074. The budget is CNY 3.92 million, and the maximum price limit is the same.
This project procures an integrated air-ground-water scientific research and experimental platform centered around UAVs, UGVs, and USVs. In addition to the unmanned system platforms, it includes collaborative robotic arms, navigation and positioning, environmental perception, mission payloads, a unified management and control platform, meteorological observation, experimental data collection, and indoor and outdoor safety protection hardware and software. There are three core products: a multi-agent ground-air collaborative management platform, an indoor flight safety protection system, and an outdoor electronic fence and testing site system. The platform must support the unified access, collaborative operation, secondary algorithm development, and physical verification of various heterogeneous devices—allowing self-developed devices by teachers and students to be connected for verification in the future.
The supplier must complete delivery, installation, and debugging within 45 calendar days after the contract takes effect, and the delivery must reach a state where experiments can be conducted directly. The project does not accept joint bids. The bid submission deadline is 9:30 a.m. on November 11. The bid opening will be conducted online on the Jiangsu Government Procurement (Su Cai Yun) platform, and the procurement agency is Jiangsu Hongcheng Engineering Project Management Co., Ltd.
Shenzhen Technology University: CNY 4.5 Million for City-Level Low-Altitude Aeronautical Charts and Intelligence Services
Next is Shenzhen Technology University. The project is named "City-Level Digital Low-Altitude Visual Flight Aeronautical Charts and Intelligence Information Service System Project (A)", with the number SZCG2026001316. The budget is CNY 4.5 million, and the maximum price limit is the same. It bids for a set of systems, and the technical requirements are detailed in the bidding documents. The project name reveals its positioning: it is not about building a laboratory, but developing digital low-altitude aeronautical charts and flight intelligence services covering the city scale.
The threshold clauses of this project are worth noting: procurement is exclusively targeted at small and micro enterprises; failure to provide the declaration letter as required will result in direct disqualification in the qualification review; joint bids are not accepted, subcontracting is not allowed, and transfer of contracts is prohibited; no bid bond is required. The bid submission deadline and bid opening time are both 8:30 a.m. on November 3. The bid will be opened publicly at the Shenzhen Public Resource Trading Center and submitted online via the Shenzhen Government Procurement Smart (Supervision) Platform. The purchaser is Shenzhen Technology University, located at No. 3002 Lantian Road, Pingshan District, Shenzhen, and the procurement executor is the Shenzhen Public Resource Trading Center.
The two projects total CNY 8.42 million, with one grounded in the laboratory and the other soaring over the city. As universities step into the low-altitude sector, they are making up for past shortcomings in both hardware for teaching and research and data services. These two announcements posted on the same day are the very actions of making up for these shortcomings.
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