WATCH: A drone light and fireworks show was held in Chinatown at midnight as part of the Chinese New Year celebration, February 17, 2026. | via Bam Alegre/GMA Integrated News | GMA News

🎆Happy New Year guys!🎇 This is on October 17, 2025, in Liuyang, China—known as the world's fireworks capital—a spectacular drone and fireworks display during the 17th Liuyang Fireworks Cultural Festival set two Guinness World Records. Precisely 15,947 drones, all controlled by a single computer, took flight simultaneously, breaking the record for the most multirotor drones airborne at once from one system. A subset of 7,496 drones served as mobile platforms to launch fireworks, setting a secon