China is experiencing an industrial tourism boom, which is increasingly exposing urban middle-class children to high-tech environments and fostering their interest in advanced technology. By visiting sites like low-altitude aviation companies, children are developing a perception of Chinese tech as "cool." This trend aims to cultivate a new generation of tech-savvy individuals.

The eight-year-old son of Guangzhou businessman Terry Fang recently arrived at a blunt conclusion: Chinese tech is “cool”. The boy’s impression was formed not in the classroom, or even online, but through repeated exposure to real-world industrial settings. Earlier this year, Fang took his children to a local low-altitude aviation company, where they watched electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft navigate and avoid obstacles in real time. For China’s urban middle class, hi-tech...