On August 14th, a drone launched from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Baqiao District in Xi'an successfully delivered medical supplies to the Dizhai Community Health Service Center in just 11 minutes. After verification, the medicines were stored in the pharmacy warehouse, and the drone returned. This marks the first launch of an urban unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) medical delivery route in Northwest China, jointly created by Shaanxi Logistics Group and the local government.

The as-the-crow-flies distance between the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Baqiao District and Dizhai Community Health Service Center is 10.5 kilometers. Traditional ground transport requires at least 40 minutes for delivery, whereas the drone operation is more than three times as efficient, dramatically reducing transit time. This capability effectively addresses the challenge of delivering medical supplies in complex or hard-to-reach environments during medical emergencies.

Baqiao District has complex traffic conditions that hinder efficient medicine delivery. To address this, Shaanxi Logistics Group partnered with the local government to create an urban UAV medical delivery platform.

Operating regularly with Baqiao District as its core, the route will deploy market‑standard high‑load rotary UAVs (up to 30 kg) to establish a low‑altitude urban medical delivery network, creating a district‑wide "15‑minute low‑altitude logistics circle" for emergencies.

"Next, we will leverage key technologies—intelligent temperature‑control systems and multi‑UAV scheduling algorithms—to develop an intelligent management and dispatch platform for multi‑UAV fleets," said a senior executive of Shaanxi Logistics Group Industry Research Institute Co., Ltd. "We will expand precise temperature‑controlled delivery of specialty medicines and scale drone use across vaccine distribution, emergency medical supply delivery, and blood transport to modernize the province's public‑health services."