The use of drones in China’s tightly regulated airspace has been limited to tests in sparsely populated areas away from busy flight corridors, as regulators play catch-up with draft rules on UAV usage published in 2019.
News of the policies aligns with political messaging in Beijing that the months-long tech sector crackdowns, which have wiped about US$2 trillion from related stocks, would start to ease.
Jean Liu Qing, president of Didi Chuxing, and her father Liu Chuanzhi, founder of Lenovo, are the latest Chinese executives to hide their posts on Weibo amid a widening internet content crackdown.