On April 2, the delivery ceremony for China's first provincial medium?sized heavy?load weather modification UAV, named "Xianglin I", was successfully held at CETC Aircraft. The ceremony was attended by Zhou Shuxue, Deputy Director of the Weather Modification Center of the China Meteorological Administration (CMA); Wang Kefu, First?Level Inspector of the Anhui Provincial Meteorological Service; Guan Guoshuang, Director of the Wuhu Meteorological Bureau; Ma Rong, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and District Mayor of Wanzhi District; along with representatives from several local weather modification offices.

"Xianglin I" is a low?cost, heavy?load weather modification unmanned aerial vehicle jointly developed by the CMA Weather Modification Center, the Anhui Provincial Meteorological Service, and CETC Aircraft in active response to the national call to develop the low?altitude economy. A single sortie can complete the entire operational process of "preliminary detection – precision seeding – effectiveness assessment". The aircraft is capable of operating in complex weather conditions and can be widely used in scenarios such as drought relief and rainfall enhancement, air quality improvement, forest fire prevention, and support for major events.

As the first operational weather modification UAV in Anhui Province and the first medium?sized fixed?wing weather modification UAV in China with a payload capacity exceeding 200 kilograms, "Xianglin I" fills a gap in the medium?sized UAV segment of the weather modification equipment system, marking a key step toward a more systematic and self?reliant development of China's weather modification equipment. Going forward, CETC Aircraft will accelerate the transformation of scientific research achievements in the UAV field, actively promote scenario?based applications in logistics, emergency response, and other areas, and help establish the low?altitude economy as an emerging pillar industry in Anhui Province.