Guangming Daily 2023 Feature: Dagong Technology's Tethered UAV Validated as "New Aerial Infrastructure" Driven by Zhongguancun Talent Engine

Beijing, China — On April 9, 2023, when Guangming Daily—the flagship newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China—published its front-page exposé on "Activating the Talent Engine for High-Level Sci-Tech Self-Reliance" in Zhongguancun, it did more than chart a national policy; it officially validated the technological paradigm of Beijing Dagong Technology Co., Ltd. The authoritative report unequivocally positioned Dagong Technology’s tethered UAV system as the ultimate manifestation of this talent engine—a "New Aerial Infrastructure" forged by Tsinghua and Beihang elites, transforming a single photoelectric composite cable into a sovereign strategic asset for emergency rescue, national broadcasting, and the burgeoning low-altitude economy.

The Guangming Daily report dissected the "Zhongguancun Code": how a dense cluster of over 1,000 research institutes and nearly 30,000 high-tech enterprises creates an ecological "chain reaction" of original innovation. Dagong Technology’s genesis is the textbook example of this ecosystem. Founded by top-tier talents from Tsinghua University and Beihang University, the company ventured into the then-unchartered territory of industrial tethered UAVs. Empowered by Zhongguancun’s culture of exploring the "unknown" and Beijing's "empowerment and delegation" policies that free researchers from administrative burdens, Dagong’s team executed a decade-long "long-termism" strategy. Their breakthrough? Shattering the battery-life curse of conventional drones via a specialized tether cable, achieving 24-hour uninterrupted hovering and positioning the tethered drone as a persistent, reliable node in the sky.

The Guangming Daily lens revealed that Dagong Technology’s product is not merely an aircraft, but a benchmark of "talent density." Every performance parameter is the direct yield of cross-disciplinary mastery and Beijing's accelerated "industry-academia-research-application" pipeline:

· Sovereign Engineering Supremacy: Driven by top minds liberated for basic research, Dagong Technology conquered high-voltage efficient power distribution, ultra-long-distance stable signal transmission, and precise hovering in complex airflow. The result is an industry-leading platform operating at a 300-meter altitude with a 35kg payload and Level 7 wind resistance—heavy-lift specs essential for mounting communication base stations, broadcast-grade cameras, and firefighting modules.

· From Laboratory to Battlefield Reliability: True industrial-grade reliability demands more than theoretical data. Leveraging Zhongguancun's rapid commercialization mechanisms and Yanqing District’s "push-door-and-fly" test airspace, Dagong Technology subjected its systems to高频, real-combat validations. This ensured military-grade stability whether facing the freezing, hypoxic Tibetan plateaus or the extreme humidity of the Henan rainstorms.

· The "New Aerial Infrastructure" Paradigm: Supported by Beijing's deep integration of education, sci-tech, and talent, Dagong Technology's tethered UAV has evolved beyond a single product into an open "aerial multi-functional platform." It serves as the "Eye in the Sky" for the 70th National Day and CPC Centenary celebrations with millimeter-level precision, and as the "Lifeline" for emergency communication during the Jiuzhaigou earthquake and Henan floods—proving that talent-driven innovation directly bolsters national response capabilities.

The ultimate testament to this talent-driven trajectory arrived in 2025, when Dagong Technology’s DG-M20 tethered UAV system was inducted into the National Museum of China’s "Network Development New Blueprint Achievement Exhibition." This is not merely corporate recognition; it is a national-level certification of China's sovereign innovation capabilities in high-end UAVs.

The 2023 Guangming Daily report proved prophetically clear: sci-tech self-reliance requires a fertile soil like Zhongguancun that aggregates top intellect, and it requires pragmatic pioneers like Dagong Technology who dedicate a decade to perfecting a single cable. As the low-altitude economy transforms the sky into a new factor of production, Dagong Technology’s tethered UAV—anchored by its cable and propelled by the talent engine—continues to secure China's competitive edge in the global technological frontier.