On May 22, 2026, the kick-off meeting of the drafting working group for the Aerospace Software Quality Management System (AeroSQMS) standard, hosted by the China Association for Consumer Products Quality and Safety Promotion (hereinafter referred to as the “CACPQSP”) and initiated under the leadership of ACCU Group, was successfully held at the ACCU Building in Suzhou. Dr. David Chen , CEO of ACCU Group and Head of the AeroSQMS Standard Working Group, Michael Rao, Senior Consultant of the Aerospace Business Division, and Evan Yang, Senior Manager of the Knowledge Operation Department, attended the meeting. Participants also included COMAC, GKN, CATARC, Inflync, Zephyrs, Range, Aerofugia, XPENG AEROHT, Autoflight, HKUST, GRG Metrology, CACPQSP, as well as experts in civil aviation airworthiness certification. This meeting officially marked the beginning of China’s aerospace software quality standardization construction, laying a solid safety foundation for the high-quality development of the low-altitude economy.
The meeting opened with a speech by Yuanhui Zheng, Secretary-General of the Automotive Working Committee of the Association, CACPQSP. He pointed out that the low-altitude economy has become a national strategic emerging industry. As core carriers, low-altitude aircraft such as eVTOLs rely on software as their “digital brain,” and software quality and safety are directly related to flight safety and industrial compliance. At present, the traditional aerospace AS9100D standard focuses on manufacturing processes and is not applicable to software enterprises; automotive software standards also cannot fully adapt to the high-safety requirements of aviation. The absence of an industry-specific software quality management standard has constrained the large-scale development of the industry and the efficiency of airworthiness certification. CACPQSP’s leadership in promoting the formulation of this standard is not only a key measure to address shortcomings, but also a core strategic move for China to seize international standard-setting discourse power in the low-altitude economy.
Dr. David Chen, CEO of ACCU Group, gave an in-depth interpretation of the background and working methods for the standard development at the meeting. He emphasized that aerospace software quality is by no means simply a matter of code, but rather a systematic engineering project covering the full process of requirements, design, verification, and control. As the characteristics of eVTOL as a “software-defined aircraft” become increasingly evident, new scenarios such as AI algorithms, software iterative deployment, and air-air-ground collaboration are placing requirements on software quality management far beyond those of traditional aviation.
The launch of this standard is a milestone event in connecting the automotive and low-altitude supply chains through the construction of an aerospace software quality standard. In the future, ACCU will continue to leverage its cross-industry quality leadership advantages, work together with all parties in the industry, and advance the development of the AeroSQMS standard to a high standard, helping China move from “technology leadership” to “standards leadership” in the low-altitude economy, and contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to the development of the global aerospace industry.
