As drones deliver sendings in the Chinese villages

In the rural areas of the People's Republic of China delivery of sendings and mail using drones actively develops. Within partnership of national mail operator China Post with the local producer of kopter of Antwork Network Technology of sending are delivered already more than to one hundred Chinese villages. At the end of February, 2018 the Xinhua agency reported about it.

Cooperation of China Post and Antwork began in April, 2016. Six months after the Chinese startup developed the system of delivery by drones under the name JetGo which then began to be applied in the settlement of Hanggai of the Province of Zhejiang with the population about 36 thousand human. Gradually service extended also to other provinces with insufficiently developed transport connection - Guandong, Sichuan and Guizhou.

In the Chinese villages delivery of sendings by drones actively develops

Before shipment the mail carrier in the central department inserts the accumulator into the UAV and loads into it sendings then using mobile application sets a destination point and scans the QR code. Having verified with a weather forecast and having remotely convinced of operability of the drone, employees of command center give a command for start.

UAVs deliver freights weighing 5-7 kg to distance to 30 km. Flight takes less than 20 minutes whereas before implementation of drones mail carriers needed on delivery about 2 hours. Besides, use of kopter profitable economically: if the courier needs to pay about 90 yuans (about $14.2) a day, then one delivery by the drone costs 35 yuans ($5.5). The cost of one Antwork drone is 100 thousand yuans ($15.8 thousand).

Drone of Antwork company

Antwork uses drones and for other purposes. For example, the company develops service for delivery of food for tourists in rural hotels and guest houses. One more direction - medical. Once the kopter helped to save the 85-year-old female resident of the remote village at which pressure rose, and medicine reached a limit. The woman was wanted to be brought to district hospital, but because of a heavy snowfall the only road was blocked. Then the head of the rural settlement contacted doctors, and in 13 minutes the UAV delivered the necessary medicine.^[1]

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