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Yeah, as if everything come out of China is wanting to kill you. From robotic space arms to toy drones. It's kind weird to have that kind of thoughts here, really.

That been said, the actual reason for cities to use these drones is surprisingly simple: China banned firework show few years ago for environmental reasons, so cities use drones as alternative to celebrate October 1 which is China's national day and the longest holidays (the Golden Holidays).

See? Just that simple.

Also, using drones is a smarter choice: Not only it's eco-friendlier, but also cheap, fixable and safer compare to fireworks. You can even put ads in the sky to cover part of the cost after the show is over, it just make more sense.

In this very case, I think the drones are doing fail-safe landing maneuvers, probably due to lost of control signal. Reportedly the drone company has already called the police on the suspicion of sabotage.



Reportedly, a company representative has denied the sabotage claims as baseless: https://3g.163.com/news/article/GLB7UNBI0001899O.html


Huh. Thanks for the update. My information was still in the "媒体报道显示,有高新区万达广场工作人员称,已报警处理,疑似同行恶意竞争干扰所致" time frame.




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