Beidou Summit Unveils New Applications, Products, Industry Innovations

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 29 (Bernama) -- A wave of new Beidou applications and business formats wowed attendees at the fourth International Summit on the Large-scale Application of Beidou (Beidou Summit) in Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province.

According to a statement, the summit highlighted Beidou’s rapid evolution “from the sky to people’s side”, “from application to industry”, and now “from China to the world”.

This summit set up two major exhibition areas, namely “indoor + outdoor”, and displayed more than 1,000 application demonstration scenarios; 33 new Beidou-related products, technologies and applications were released for the first time on site.

The “Blue Book on the Development of the Beidou Industry (2025)” released at the Beidou Summit showed that Beidou has now built a complete industrial chain covering the upper, middle and lower reaches.

According to the “Blue Book”, by 2025, Beidou services have covered more than 200 countries and regions worldwide, providing products and services to over 140 countries and regions, and the global coverage rate of Beidou-enabled mobile terminals has exceeded 50 per cent.

Progress has also been made in the alignment with international standards, and Beidou has been incorporated into the standard systems of 11 international organisations, including the International Civil Aviation Organization and the International Maritime Organization.

The 22 major signed projects of this summit include a number of international projects, which marks that the large-scale application of Beidou is accelerating to break through geographical restrictions and moving from “in-depth domestic penetration” to “global value expansion”.

The entities of the signed projects at this summit are diverse, covering international organisations, domestic local governments, industry associations and leading enterprises, with the total number of international projects and projects from other provinces accounting for 61.9 per cent.

Industry insiders pointed out that these projects not only deepen the cooperation among industry, universities and research institutions, but also reflect the leap of Beidou technology from a “Chinese solution” to “global sharing”.

-- BERNAMA