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China’s “low-altitude economy” is taking off
The authorities have found a new industry they want Chinese firms to dominate
The 16 propellers arranged in a circle around the passenger cabin began to turn, and then the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft—to all intents and purposes, a self-flying car—began to rise smoothly into the air. It climbed to a height of about 50 metres, affording sweeping views of the cranes and docks of an industrial neighbourhood of Guangzhou, before descending again to the same spot from which it took off, at the headquarters of EHang, the company that made it. This article appeared in the Briefing section of the print edition under the headline “Delivery drones and flying cars!”
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