CCTV News: On May 18, the "2025 China Satellite Navigation and Location Service Industry Development White Paper" was released. In 2024, the total output value of my country's satellite navigation and location service industry reached RMB 575.8 billion, an increase of 7.39% year-on-year. The total number of satellite navigation patent applications has exceeded 129,000, continuing to maintain the global leadership.

Beidou system has been deepened in the industry and mass consumption fields

In 2024, the total output value of my country's satellite navigation and location service industries exceeded 570 billion yuan. Behind this is the deepening application of Beidou system in the industry and mass consumption fields. How widely is Beidou positioning applied? How strong is the positioning?

The white paper shows that in 2024, the total sales of domestic satellite navigation positioning terminal products exceeded 410 million units. Among them, the shipment of smartphones with satellite navigation and positioning functions reached 294 million units. The sales of various positioning terminal equipment including the Internet of Things, wearables, on-board, high-precision, etc. exceeded 120 million units (sets). With the continuous growth of shipments of satellite navigation equipment, many domestic navigation map suppliers have officially switched to Beidou priority positioning.

Liu Dake, vice president and secretary-general of the China Satellite Navigation and Positioning Association, introduced that 11 major electronic map service providers provide location services over 1 trillion times per day, and the total mileage of navigation services per day exceeds 4 billion kilometers. Beidou's high-precision lane-level navigation has basically achieved full coverage of urban and rural roads across the country. Innovation breakthroughs in multiple fields, greatly improving service capabilities

The white paper shows that at present, the Beidou system has achieved innovative breakthroughs in many fields such as transportation, electricity and mass consumption, greatly improving the ability of high-precision location services.

In the field of transportation, as of the end of 2024, about 13.5 million units (sets) of various Beidou terminal equipment have been promoted and applied in road operation vehicles, postal express vehicles, rail transit, etc. In addition, in the fully automated operations of port loading and unloading and yards, the operating efficiency of unmanned card collection cards installed with Beidou navigation equipment has been increased by 25%.

In 2024, the power industry is also continuing to vigorously promote the Beidou application, promoting more than 500,000 application terminals of various types, providing reliable and accurate high-precision position services for intelligent equipment for business applications such as drone self-inspection, substation robot inspection, and tower monitoring. The efficiency of power transmission potential hazard inspection has been greatly improved. The "international circle of friends" of Beidou system continues to expand

As a core supplier of global satellite navigation systems recognized by the United Nations, the Beidou system has fully entered the standard system of 11 international organizations such as civil aviation, maritime, and mobile communications, and has continued to expand the "international circle of friends".

At present, more than 30 African countries including Nigeria, Tunisia, Senegal have built Beidou CORS stations. At present, my country's low-altitude economy has exceeded 500 billion yuan, and is expected to reach 2 trillion yuan by 2030. In the next step, the Beidou system will accelerate the integration with cutting-edge technology such as 5G communications and artificial intelligence to exert greater effectiveness.