From March 27 to 30, the final of the Second Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Application Technology (Integrated Patrol and Measurement) Competition Event of the 2024 Belt & Road and BRICS Competition of Skills Development and Technology Innovation was successfully held at the Vocational Education School in Chiping District, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province. Teachers Zhang Hui and Cui Yaohui from the School of Surveying and Mapping Engineering, along with students Hu Ziyang and Zhou Yuhan, successfully advanced to the national final through the online preliminary contest. After two days of fierce competition, Hu Ziyang and Zhou Yuhan won a National Second Prize, teachers Zhang Hui and Cui Yaohui were awarded Excellent Instructors, and YRCTI received an Excellent Organization Award.

This competition was hosted by the Chinese Council of the BRICS Business Council, the International Alliance of Skills Development, and the “Belt & Road” and BRICS Skills Development and Technology Innovation Training Center of the China Association for Science and Technology and co-hosted by the China Association of Inventions and the China Center for International People-to-People Exchange, Ministry of Education. A total of 248 participants from 127 vocational college teams across 22 provinces and cities in China participated in the final. In recent years, the low-altitude economy has become a new sector for global technological competition and industrial transformation. This competition integrated vocational education with industrial needs and transformed real application scenarios of companies into practical training topics, thus further promoting education and innovation, connecting the education chain and talent chain with the industry chain and innovation chain, and jointly building a new highland for skilled talents.