Recently, the 2025 National Low-Altitude Economy Conference was grandly convened in Wuhu, Anhui Province. The China Regional Director of the International Professional Competency Certification Association and their delegation were invited to attend. During the conference, the Association launched the ‘Central Asian Universities Low-Altitude Economy Industry-Academia Joint Talent Development Programme’ and engaged in in-depth discussions with Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. This marks a pivotal step towards advancing international talent cultivation and fostering industrial synergy within the low-altitude economy sector.

This newly launched university-enterprise collaborative talent development programme centres on the Central Asian Industry Research Institute at Panjshir State Pedagogical University in Tajikistan, focusing on establishing three key cooperative frameworks: Firstly, jointly formulating master's and doctoral-level talent cultivation schemes for the low-altitude economy sector with Central Asian universities and relevant domestic institutions, clarifying training objectives and curriculum systems; secondly, recruiting high-calibre teaching staff from both academic and corporate sectors to establish cross-disciplinary, international teaching teams, ensuring the quality of talent development; Thirdly, it innovates equipment support models by leveraging domestic drone enterprises to sponsor teaching equipment. Through foundation donations, this empowers Central Asian universities, filling local gaps in hardware resources for low-altitude economy education.

The core value of this project lies in establishing a closed-loop system encompassing ‘training-employment-reinvestment’. Through collaborative training between institutions and enterprises, it provides targeted delivery of low-altitude economy professionals with specialised capabilities to Chinese enterprises in Central Asia. This approach not only addresses the talent requirements for corporate overseas expansion but also assists Central Asian universities in enhancing their disciplinary development standards, achieving deep integration between educational resources, industrial demands, and regional development.

During the conference, the China Regional Director of the International Professional Competency Certification Association held specialised discussions with Research Fellow NIK MOHD from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia regarding collaboration in the low-altitude economy sector. Both parties engaged in in-depth exchanges on topics including admissions criteria for relevant programmes and innovations in training models. They reached preliminary cooperation intentions and plan to establish platforms for subsequent faculty and student exchanges and academic collaborations, thereby further expanding the scope of international talent development in the low-altitude economy.

In the future, the International Professional Competency Certification Association will continue to leverage the National Low-Altitude Economy Conference as an opportunity to deepen collaboration with domestic and international universities and enterprises. This will drive the establishment of talent development standards within the low-altitude economy sector and facilitate the implementation of international cooperation, thereby providing a robust talent foundation for the high-quality development of the global low-altitude economy industry.