China Science Star Map's Low-Altitude New Infrastructure Layout Decoded: Three Benchmark Projects Highlight Model Innovation

(Source: Liu’an News Network)

Reprinted from: Liu’an News Network

On the southern slope of the Taihang Mountains, the Shangdang Plateau. In early 2026, CAS StarMap will commence construction of the new low-altitude safety infrastructure project in Shangdang District, Changzhi City, providing a replicable and promotable benchmark sample for the high-quality development of low-altitude economy in resource-based cities, driven by “scenario-led + industry empowerment.”

Currently, under the continuous release of policy dividends, the low-altitude economy is steadily entering the “construction phase,” with infrastructure development becoming the primary breakthrough for industry growth. Since CAS StarMap announced its “One Body, Two Wings” strategy in 2025, it has been expanding in the low-altitude economy sector, signing offline agreements in over 20 cities, and recently successfully implementing billion-yuan-level low-altitude new infrastructure benchmark projects in Hanzhong, Hengshui, and Changzhi, covering key markets in Northwest and North China, including digital infrastructure for low-altitude economy, integrated sky-ground control, and new low-altitude safety infrastructure. These three projects are not only typical practices of the post-Two Sessions low-altitude new infrastructure market but also showcase CAS StarMap’s mature model and core competitive advantages in deploying low-altitude new infrastructure, providing industry with replicable and referenceable practical examples.

Business Model: Dual modes to adapt to the market, integrated construction and operation to realize long-term value

CAS StarMap tailors two main business models—investment, construction, and operation (partner model) and EPC + full-cycle operation—according to the different project needs and development plans of various cities, abandoning the shortcomings of traditional one-time delivery, and realizing value extraction throughout the project lifecycle. This strategy has been precisely implemented in the Hanzhong and Changzhi projects.

Investment, construction, and operation (partner model): Deeply binding local partners to create city low-altitude economy partners

The Hanzhong project, as a benchmark for the comprehensive low-altitude opening pilot in Shaanxi Province, adopts a 15-year integrated investment, construction, and operation (partner) model, which is a core practice of CAS StarMap’s long-term cooperation mode. The consortium and the government jointly establish a project company, handling investment, construction, operation, and maintenance, with the government paying annual service fees for availability and operational performance, and assets transferred free of charge upon contract completion. This model not only reduces the immediate fiscal pressure on Hanzhong’s government but also locks in CAS StarMap’s long-term stable cash flow of 10-20 years, transforming from a “project contractor” to a “city low-altitude economy partner.”

EPC + full-cycle operation: Light assets, low risk, rapid regional benchmark deployment

The Changzhi project adopts an EPC + full-cycle operation model. Technically, CAS StarMap is responsible for the entire project lifecycle from design, construction to operation, ensuring standardized and efficient technology delivery. This model enables rapid deployment and technical output of regional low-altitude new infrastructure, creating a demonstration model for low-altitude safety infrastructure in Shanxi Province. Commercially, it greatly alleviates project construction pressure and provides a solid foundation for expanding incremental low-altitude markets.

The core commonality of these two models is the integration of construction, operation, and management, thoroughly solving the industry’s “heavy construction, light operation” pain points, extending project value from construction to full lifecycle operation, balancing short-term gains and long-term value.

Project Model: Ecosystem consortium architecture to achieve complementary capabilities across the entire chain

In response to the requirements of city-level comprehensive low-altitude new infrastructure projects for full-chain capabilities such as investment and financing, planning and design, platform construction, and scene operation, CAS StarMap adopts an ecosystem consortium bidding mode in all three projects. It takes itself as the core leading party and technical chief responsible, collaborating with local state-owned assets, engineering construction firms, general aviation operators, scene implementation service providers, and other entities to form an integrated implementation community characterized by technical control, resource complementarity, risk sharing, and benefit sharing. This approach achieves comprehensive complementarity of qualifications, resources, and capabilities, becoming the optimal solution for undertaking large-scale low-altitude new infrastructure projects.

Unlike traditional information or engineering projects, low-altitude new infrastructure inherently features multiple stakeholders, cross-field integration, strict compliance, and long cycles. A single enterprise finds it difficult to possess all chain capabilities simultaneously. CAS StarMap, anchored by core competencies and adhering to the principle of “dominating the sky with the sky, controlling the sky with computing,” has built a “1+2+N+M” strategic system and a “Five-in-One” low-altitude product system covering low-altitude planning, safety assurance, collaborative regulation, flight services, and scene applications, providing systematic solutions for low-altitude new infrastructure projects. This enables CAS StarMap not only to undertake projects but also to deeply participate in local low-altitude economic planning and development, becoming a key partner for local governments in developing low-altitude economies.

Taking the Hengshui project as an example, CAS StarMap partnered with Huatian Technology and HuanTian Wisdom to successfully win the bid. CAS StarMap provides comprehensive low-altitude new infrastructure technology capabilities, Huatian Technology handles overall scheme design and full-process project delivery, and HuanTian Wisdom leverages satellite remote sensing technology to empower the project. The strong alliance of three companies realizes a full-chain closed loop of “low-altitude new infrastructure + aerospace data + smart operation,” breaking the limitations of traditional single-enterprise large infrastructure contracting.

Through the ecosystem consortium model, CAS StarMap integrates resources across the entire industry chain, disperses project risks, and allows each participant to leverage their expertise, ensuring efficient progress from construction to operation. This model breaks the current industry pattern of individual enterprises competing alone and constructs an industrial ecosystem for low-altitude new infrastructure. By mutual advantages, resource sharing, and deep integration, it also provides a replicable and scalable cooperation paradigm for large-scale low-altitude economic infrastructure projects nationwide.

Implementation mode: Scene application as the traction to activate airspace industry value

Differing from generalized low-altitude new infrastructure deployment, the core logic of the Hanzhong, Hengshui, and Changzhi projects is scene-driven. Currently, many domestic low-altitude new infrastructure projects remain at the stage of “building platforms and laying hardware,” lacking actual scene implementation and industry linkage. CAS StarMap offers a new development logic: the ultimate value of low-altitude new infrastructure does not lie in how many platforms and hardware are built, but in whether valuable scenes can be implemented and whether vibrant industries can be driven. Only by activating the real value of the low-altitude industry through scene-driven approaches can airspace resources be transformed into “industry momentum,” enabling sustainable development of the low-altitude economy.

Taking the Changzhi project as an example, CAS StarMap focuses on three core pain points: safety production in resource-based cities, mountain ecological protection, and urban refined governance, creating customized, implementable, and effective low-altitude application scenes. Currently, tailings pond monitoring, forest fire monitoring, and illegal construction monitoring are in use. This shifts low-altitude new infrastructure from “built for building’s sake” to “built for practical use,” from “tech stacking” to “solving real problems,” making low-altitude new infrastructure more “grounded, implementable, and effective,” laying a solid foundation for industry empowerment.

If scene-driven approaches make Changzhi’s low-altitude new infrastructure “come alive,” then industry empowerment makes the low-altitude economy “strong.” In the Changzhi project, CAS StarMap uses low-altitude safety infrastructure as a foundation, with the already implemented core scenes as application examples, building public technical platforms, creating testing and verification bases, and linking local industry foundations. This upgrades from “single scene application” to “full industry chain aggregation,” enabling low-altitude technology not only to solve problems but also to drive industries and promote the low-altitude economy as a new pillar of high-quality development in Changzhi.

The successful implementation of the “scene-driven + industry empowerment” model results from the bidirectional adaptation of CAS StarMap’s full-chain technical capabilities and Changzhi’s local resources and policy needs, forming a “enterprise technological empowerment + major policy support + local demand-driven” triangular support system. This is the core key to the model’s successful deployment and industry activation.

Conclusion

The landing of CAS StarMap’s benchmark projects in Hanzhong, Hengshui, and Changzhi sketches a clear outline of its deployment in low-altitude new infrastructure: adapting to market needs with different business models, integrating industry ecology through ecosystem consortium architecture, and accelerating project implementation with scene-driven approaches.

As low-altitude economy becomes a core track of “14th Five-Year Plan” industrial development, CAS StarMap’s innovative models and practical explorations will continue to promote the standardization and scale development of low-altitude new infrastructure, providing more enterprises with a replicable path to participate in low-altitude economic construction, and offering important insights for the industry:

The competition in low-altitude new infrastructure is no longer about capital and hardware but about comprehensive capabilities in technology, ecology, and operation; the development direction of enterprises is no longer just project contracting but a transformation from “contractor” to “partner,” upgrading from “building projects” to “building ecosystems.”

In the future, CAS StarMap will continue to focus on aerospace information technology, deeply cultivate the low-altitude economy sector, promote the integration of low-altitude economy with urban governance, industrial upgrading, and public services, making the low-altitude economy an important engine for new productive forces, and supporting China’s modernization.

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