Amid growing environmental awareness, drones have steadily replaced fireworks on these occasions and found wider applications beyond just aerial photography.
Hangzhou City University became the second domestic college to enter the budding eVTOL race, after Beijing Institute of Technology, which debuted its eVTOL aerial vehicle in October last year.
The three parties pledged resources and efforts to develop high-speed eVTOL aircraft, or H-eVTOL for short, as an upgrade version of existing eVTOL models and their variants in the market.
The park, covering a planned area of 3.09 square km, is the city's first industrial zone named after robotics as well as one of the largest eight smart production parks citywide.
Meanwhile, a host of domestic players have risen over the years, inspired by the notion of catching up with the West on surgical robotics and giving leaders like da Vinci a run for their money.
A scale-up in PV production has driven the explosive growth in AGV sales in H1. The sector is expected to generate a sales volume of 19,000 units, up 100% from last year, through 2023.
Engineers on site are busy assembling a silo excavator custom-made for this operation, called "Dream", which is reportedly the world's largest of its kind and will dig two silos, each measuring 23m across.