1. If the parties have legal qualifications to operate drones, the general target of aerial photography will not be illegal;
2. However, if the drone is used to photograph and map the secret-related projects of secret-related units, or if the drone is released in the airspace near the airport, it will endanger the flight safety of civil aviation, and the consequences may be very serious, so serious that it may be punished.
In addition to meeting all the following conditions, the flight activities of civil unmanned aerial vehicle systems within the prescribed airspace used by civil aviation shall be reviewed by the regional administration:
1, outside the airport clearance protection zone;
2. The maximum takeoff weight of civil unmanned aerial vehicles is less than or equal to 7 kilograms;
3. Flying within the line of sight, and the weather conditions do not affect the continuous visibility of the unmanned aerial vehicle;
4. flying during the day;
5, the flight speed is not greater than 120 km/h;
6. Civil unmanned aerial vehicles meet the relevant requirements of airworthiness management.
Legal basis: Article 111th of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).
Whoever steals, spies on, buys or illegally provides state secrets or information for overseas institutions, organizations and personnel shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years; If the circumstances are especially serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment; If the circumstances are relatively minor, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights.