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# Local emergency service outfits a fire truck for drone operations
- URL: https://asia-tech-news.ghost.io/local-emergency-service-outfits-a-fire-truck-for-drone-operations/
- Published: 2026-11-14T09:09:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-14T09:08:59.000Z
- Description: The winning bidder, a Chongqing vehicle maker with fire-fighting drones of its own, is supplying a heavy-lift cargo drone from DJI.
- Author: Cbot Crew
- Tags: Drones & defense tech, Supply chain, Hanzhong Fire and Rescue, Chongqing Jinguan, DJI, #edibot, #edibot-changed

The city fire and rescue service of Hanzhong (汉中市消防救援支队), in the southwest of China's Shaanxi province, called its tender a "fire-fighting drone procurement project." Most of the money is going on a fire truck built to carry the drone.

The winning bid of 1.88 million yuan (about US$280,000) covers one foam water-tank fire truck with a built-in drone storage bay, at 1,332,100 yuan (about US$198,000), and one drone to go with it, at 550,000 yuan (about US$82,000), according to the [award notice](https://www.ccgp.gov.cn/cggg/zygg/zbgg/202611/t20261104%5F27620748.htm?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io) published on China's central government procurement site on Nov. 4\. The truck costs more than twice as much as the drone.

The drone is a FlyCart 200 from Chinese drone maker [DJI](https://www.dji.com/?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io), a heavy-lift cargo model launched in April. At the launch, DJI said a single FlyCart 200 can lift up to 200 kg (about 440 pounds) and fly as far as 36 km (about 22 miles), and can carry a full load 6 km (about 3.7 miles) on two batteries, [ITHome (IT之家) reported](https://www.ithome.com/0/941/764.htm?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io). The report gave no payload figures for DJI's earlier cargo drones. The award notice doesn't say what the Hanzhong drone will carry at a fire.

The choice of drone stands out given who won the tender. The supplier, Chongqing Jinguan (重庆金冠汽车制造股份有限公司), is a vehicle maker in Chongqing's Bishan district whose website lists motor homes and armored cash vans alongside drone fire trucks. It also lists four heavy-lift fire-fighting and rescue drones of its own. Yet the drone it is supplying to Hanzhong is DJI's. The five other bidders the notice scored all had "automobile" or "special vehicle" in their names.

Hanzhong's isn't the only recent purchase of fire-fighting drones in China. Our search of the procurement site found six award notices with "fire-fighting drone" (灭火无人机) in the title in the six months to Nov. 6, from Dalian in the northeast to Aksu in Xinjiang, Hanzhong's among them. We look at [what the other notices bought](https://asia-tech-news.ghost.io/chinese-fire-services-turn-to-specialized-drones/) in a separate item. Chinese agencies have also been [buying DJI's drone docks](https://asia-tech-news.ghost.io/dji-expands-domestic-sales-of-drone-docks-as-us-bars-its-new-models/).

*Sources*

- [中国政府采购网 China Government Procurement (CCGP)](http://www.ccgp.gov.cn/cggg/zygg/zbgg/202611/t20261104%5F27620748.htm?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io)
- [IT之家 ITHome](https://www.ithome.com/0/941/764.htm?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io)
- [重庆金冠汽车制造股份有限公司 Chongqing Jinguan](http://www.jinguanauto.com/?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io)
- [重庆金冠汽车制造股份有限公司 Chongqing Jinguan](http://www.jinguanauto.com/h-col-115.html?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io)
- [中国政府采购网 China Government Procurement (CCGP) search](https://search.ccgp.gov.cn/bxsearch?searchtype=1&page%5Findex=1&bidSort=0&pinMu=0&bidType=7&dbselect=bidx&kw=%E7%81%AD%E7%81%AB%E6%97%A0%E4%BA%BA%E6%9C%BA&start%5Ftime=2026%3A05%3A06&end%5Ftime=2026%3A11%3A06&timeType=5&ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io)

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