Abstract
<title>Abstract</title> <p>Transport subsidies can accelerate a new network while local burdens are governed through separate instruments. This Shenzhen case study asks whether that division is visible and administratively linkable. Six complete city and district drone-logistics reward schedules yield 19 coded rules and 30 policy–exposure cells. Published payments reward new routes, flight volume, aircraft class, jurisdiction, approval, and verified operations. No exposed-population, sensitive-facility, measured-noise, complaint-burden, or distributional-vulnerability variable changes a positive reward amount; one repeated-noise-complaint clause is an ex-post eligibility safeguard. The wider governance stack nevertheless records substantial operating information. National and local rules document six of nine audited record objects, including identity, route geometry, altitude, time, flight dynamics, and population-density information. Flight counts are amount-linked, but the public documents disclose no common identifier joining operational records to fiscal claims and no standardized route-level sound, complaint, or vulnerability field. Published incentive intensity also varies sharply: threshold-average route awards span CNY 40–700 per qualifying flight, operating rates CNY 20–50, and enterprise caps CNY 1–20 million. A nine-route public-data module shows why any exposure screen must preserve geometry and category choices. The case identifies a missing exposure-accounting trail between operating records and fiscal claims, then supplies a transferable pre-payment disclosure design.</p>