Abstract: Under the new wave of technological revolution and industrial transformation, the low-altitude economy, as an important direction for cultivating new quality productive forces, has been incorporated into major national strategic planning. The low-altitude economy is a typical demand-driven economic form, and its application scenarios exhibit significant regional heterogeneity. From a regional perspective, the low-altitude economy is not a linearly expanding industry driven solely by technology or policy; rather, it is a composite economic form deeply embedded in spatial conditions, industrial systems, and governance structures. Its development path is strongly constrained by regional industrial foundations, showing distinct stratified and differentiated characteristics across different regions. The low-altitude economy exhibits marked spatial dependence, with its developmental boundaries shaped by both natural and institutional environments. It is necessary to start from regional natural endowments, industrial foundations, and market demands to construct a policy system aligned with regional characteristics, guiding the low-altitude economy toward orderly development and overall efficiency improvement through division of labor and coordination. Specific policy measures that localities can adopt include: strengthening the deep integration of top-level design with territorial spatial planning so as to build a differentiated airspace management and infrastructure layout system based on resource endowments; emphasizing differentiated urban-rural development strategies and improving airspace management and safety guarantees so as to accommodate actual urban-rural disparities; and establishing cross-regional industrial coordination and benefit-sharing mechanisms so as to break down administrative barriers, thereby promoting a unified national market that features a development model where the eastern region leads in R&D, the central and western regions focus on manufacturing, thereby achieving nationwide application.

Key words: low-altitude economy, place-based development, spatial differentiation, resource endowment, regional coordinated development