Drones facilitate people’s lives in China
By Liu Ge from People’s Daily
Several Chinese cities are using drones to
monitor traffic, capturing
traffic violations such as using mobile phones while driving and illegal
parking.
In February 2019, traffic management
departments of Nanning, capital of southwestern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region handled
438 cases of illegal parking with the help of drones, according to The Beijing
News.
Compared with law enforcement personnel, drones
are more economical and efficient and have a stronger deterrent effect on those
wishing to escape punishment.
Drones take videos instead of pictures of
parking violations as evidence. It is through human analysis that the cases are
finally defined. Taking videos as evidence could document scenes and
significantly reduce the incidence of subjective misjudgments.
Besides aerial law enforcement, civilian drones
have been brought into use in more areas including plant protection in
agriculture and forestry, disaster relief, express delivery, and photography.
China’s state-run mail service operator China Post Group Corporation has concluded its first test flight of a drone for delivery services, according to
the Beijing branch of the company.
The drone took off from the post office of
Zhaitang town, Beijing’s Mentougou district, and arrived at the post station of
Malancun village, also in the
district. After the parcels were delivered, the drone returned to the post
office in Zhaitang town.
The straight-line distance of the whole trip
was about 3.9 kilometers, and it took around 8 minutes for the drone to finish
a single trip. The delivery route used to be a
10-kilometer-long journey for postal cars, which needed about 20 minutes for a
single trip.
Since mountain area accounts for 98.5 percent
of the total area of Mentougou, drones are helpful in saving labor and material
costs, and reducing the transportation cost and the risks during the delivery
services in remote mountainous area.
The post company plans to establish a rescue
team of drones to transport medicines and relief supplies in case of emergency.
Drones, which are futuristic and driven by
high-tech, are flying into the life of Chinese people, bringing about changes
and surprises in common people’s daily life.
Farmers use drones to spray
chemical herbicides in a wheat
field in Yanggang village, Shihe town, Qiaocheng district of Bozhou city,
eastern China’s Anhui province, March 4,2019. (Photo by Liu Qinli from People’s Daily Online)
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