The night skies over Dujiangyan City in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province transformed into a digital canvas, as tens of thousands of drones formed a record-breaking spectacle that blurred the line between technology and art.
Footage shows the drones lifting off in perfect unison before forming the 28 constellations of the East, along with pandas, giant mystical floating islands and uplifting phrases across the sky.
A drone performance in Dujiangyan City in China’s Sichuan Province, May 20, 2026. Video by Viory
Tech company Yufengzhe Technology, a core member of the MOVA ecosystem, launched the astonishing 33,615 drones simultaneously on the night of May 20 in an effort to set the world record for the largest drone cluster.
The spectacle set three separate Guinness World Records in a single flight, including most drones flying simultaneously under group control and most drones forming an aerial pattern.
The show also set a new world record for the largest area LED mesh flying screen, creating a staggering 148,561-square-meter flexible display suspended in mid-air.
According to local media, the fleet was powered by a self-developed, high-stability local area network (LAN) communication system with latency of under 20 milliseconds, designed to prevent signal interference between drones. It was also engineered to withstand winds of up to Level 6, while maintaining millisecond-level synchronisation.
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