Immature UAV industry

In terms of industry scale, Shenzhen, as a window for the development of the national and even global consumer drone industry (this term is not accurate), its export data can be used as an important reference for analyzing the drone industry. According to the data provided by Shenzhen Customs, in the first five months of 2015, 160,000 UAVs were exported with a value of 750 million yuan, 69 times and 55 times that of the same period last year. It can be inferred that in the first five months of 2014, the number of UAVs exported in Shenzhen was about 2,000 sets, with a total amount of only 10 million, even less than the turnover of many devices. If we consider the proportion of DJI in the export of unmanned aerial vehicles in Shenzhen and the proportion of Shenzhen in the whole country, we can basically determine that non-military unmanned aerial vehicles will hardly be counted as an industry in China before 2015.

In terms of personnel training, the laboratory where the castle is located takes UAV control technology as its main research direction. It has been established for more than ten years, and many graduate students graduate every year. However, from the autumn of 2016, some younger brothers and sisters began to enter the employment of enterprises related to drones. Why? Because there were no drone companies to choose from before. Combined with the previous discussion, the consumer-grade UAV industry has not been in China for more than 4 years, and it is easy to infer that few UAV technical talents trained before 2016 can engage in UAV-related occupations. Perhaps the most relevant situation is to enter some aerospace research institutes, but after entering, whether to engage in R&D work in this major, the friends of the institute naturally know fairly well. Therefore, few engineers who specialize in drones have three years of professional experience. Readers may say, aren't embedded and hardware engineers all talents needed for UAV research and development? There is no shortage of such engineers. Indeed, embedded and hardware engineers, even structural engineers, algorithm engineer and software engineers are all talents needed by UAV enterprises. But it is more accurate to say that enterprises need embedded engineers and hardware engineers for drones ... Just like there are many differences between embedded development of smart cars and embedded development of industrial control platforms, if we consider that everyone should stand on the shoulders of giants in their respective industries, the impact of this difference will be even greater. Since the scale of the UAV industry has exploded since 2015, it is almost too late to train talents slowly, and most of the previous talents are not in the industry, which means that the current UAV companies want to find technicians with specialized experience in drones. It is more difficult.