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27 October 2026

Research on the Construction of a Civil‑Aviation Skilled‑Talent Training System in the Context of a Low‑Altitude Economy

Peng Han1 ,  Junxi Cui1 ,  Hong Liu1
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1 School of Air Traffic Management, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300000, China
erd 2026 , 8(9), 169–175; https://doi.org/10.26689/erd.v8i9.15879
© 2026 by the Author(s). Licensee: Bio-Byword Scientific Publishing Pty Ltd, Australia. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract

The rapid development of the low‑altitude economy has put forward compound, practical and innovative requirements for the knowledge structure, professional competence and professional literacy of civil‑aviation talents. Aiming at the existing problems in civil‑aviation talent training for the low‑altitude field, such as insufficient curriculum‑content coverage, insufficient in-depth interdisciplinary integration, disconnection between practical teaching and industrial operation, and outdated teachers’ knowledge structure, this paper combines talent demands for operation‑management and safety‑assurance links in the low‑altitude‑economy industrial chain. Taking the training foundation of air‑traffic‑management‑related majors in Civil Aviation University of China as the research object, it analyzes the training objectives and core requirements for civil‑aviation skilled talents under the background of the low‑altitude economy. On this basis, a three‑dimensional training‑requirement framework composed of knowledge structure, competence system and professional literacy is constructed. This paper puts forward a modular curriculum system of “core modules + orientation modules + interdisciplinary modules”, designs a progressive four‑in‑one practical‑teaching system consisting of professional cognition, professional foundation, engineering practice and engineering design, and proposes implementation paths from the aspects of curriculum optimization, teaching‑mode innovation, practical‑platform construction, industry‑education‑research integration and quality evaluation. The research provides references for civil‑aviation transportation and air‑traffic‑management‑related majors to adapt to the development demands of the low‑altitude economy and promote the reform of talent‑training systems.

Keywords
Low‑altitude economy
Civil‑aviation skilled talents
Air traffic management
Talent‑training system
Industry‑education integration
Funding
2024–2026 Educational Science Research Program of the China Association for Transportation Education (Project No.: JT2024YB032)
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Conflict of interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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