BEIJING: China will accelerate the development of the large-scale application of its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) in marketization, industrialization, and internationalization, according to the China Satellite Navigation Office.
Since its completion in 2020, the BDS has been operating continuously, steadily, and reliably, providing powerful satellite navigation services. Its capabilities in high-precision and short-message services have been fully verified, said the office.
The BDS system applies to more than 7.9 million road-operating vehicles, more than 47,000 ships, and more than 40,000 mainline postal and express delivery vehicles nationwide. Nearly 8,000 BDS terminals of various types have been applied and promoted in the railway sector.
More than 100,000 agricultural machines have been installed with the BDS automatic driving system, covering agricultural production links such as deep farming, rice transplanting, sowing, plant protection, harvesting, straw treatment, and drying.
The number of reservoirs using BDS short message communication services for hydrological monitoring stands at 2,587, and 650 deformed landslide bodies have BDS monitoring stations.
More than 5 million shared bikes equipped with BDS high-precision positioning chips operate in more than 450 cities nationwide.–Agencies
