The 130,000-square-meter Building B of the Hongqiao Import Commodity Exhibition and Trade Center, also known as Hongqiao Pinhui, is set to be put into use on Nov 7. This new addition will also serve as a year-round platform for exhibiting and trading imported products.
The 130,000-square-meter Building B of the Hongqiao Pinhui is set to open on Nov 7. [Photo/WeChat ID: hongqiaoshangwuqu]
Positioned as a premiere platform for high-end industrial products, Building B will host an exhibition focusing on future mobility during the 7th China International Import Expo (CIIE). Occupying 4,000 sq m, the exhibition covers four areas: low-altitude economy, new energy, intelligent driving, and fashionable travel. The exhibition will gather mainstream electric vertical takeoff and landing (eTVOL) aircraft models from 23 exhibitors.
Among the exhibitors are leading companies such as AutoFlight, TCab Tech, Vertaxi, and Volant. The latter three firms are participants in the future mobility subsection of this year's CIIE. The exhibited aircraft cover various models, including a multi-rotor, a hybrid-wing, a tilt-rotor, and a ducted fan tilt-rotor, with application scenarios ranging from logistics and transportation, emergency rescue, low-altitude logistics, and manned transportation, to low-altitude tourism.
AutoFlight will bring its self-developed air taxi, the Prosperity eVTOL aircraft, to the exhibition site. Featuring a hybrid-wing configuration, it can take off and land vertically like a helicopter and cruise horizontally like a fixed-wing aircraft. Powered purely by electricity, it can carry five people, with a maximum range of 250 kilometers and a cruising speed of up to 200 kilometers per hour.
