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Beidou Civil Demonstration Leading Innovation in the Freight and Logistics Industry


Unmanned agricultural machines working in the fields, fishing boats fishing in distant waters, navigation software in mobile phones... In more and more navigation and positioning scenes, there is the same Chinese core hidden - "Beidou". According to data released by the China Satellite Navigation and Positioning Association, by the end of 2020, the sales of domestic Beidou-compatible chips and modules had exceeded 1 million pieces, quarterly shipments exceeded 5 million pieces, the total social ownership of terminal products with Beidou positioning function exceeded 1000 billion units, and the domestic output value of the Beidou system industry chain reached 10.4033 billion yuan.

Since the Beidou satellite navigation system began civilian demonstration, the Beidou system has flown from the infrastructure serving China's national security to ordinary people's homes, to thousands of industries, and has been applied in more than 120 countries and regions around the world, embarking on a "last-come, first-come" road of China's industrialization.

Break through the "city wall" of Beidou industrialization with civil demonstration

The large investment in the construction of the satellite navigation system, the high operation and maintenance costs, and the size of its application scale and application level directly determine the economic and social benefits of the Beidou system, and the economic and social benefits are the key to the sustainable development of the Beidou system. Therefore, realizing large-scale civilian promotion and forming a strong Beidou industrial chain is the only way for the sustainable development of Beidou system.

However, when Beidou system has just started regional services, due to the small number of end users and few Beidou-related enterprises, the production cost of Beidou system terminal products remains high, and the price of a device is as high as two or three thousand yuan, which lacks competitive advantage compared with GPS system, which largely hinders the industrialization and application of Beidou.

Civil demonstration is a "key move" for China to promote the successful industrialization of the Beidou system. Since 90% of the civilian users of satellite navigation are concentrated in the transportation system, it is the first to promote and apply it in the road transport industry with more than <> million operating vehicles, which is conducive to the rapid realization of scale efficiency of the Beidou system and is of great significance to the industrialization and sustainable development of the Beidou satellite navigation system.

In October 2011, the Ministry of Transport and the General Armament Department jointly launched the implementation of the "Key Transportation Process Monitoring and Management Service Demonstration System" in Beijing, becoming the first civil demonstration project of Beidou satellite navigation system to be launched. The project involves "two passengers and one danger" transport vehicles (including chartered tours, long-distance shuttle buses and hazardous chemical transport vehicles), emergency support vehicles, heavy-duty general cargo vehicles and other key operating vehicles, through the Beidou system to improve the monitoring ability of overspeeding, fatigue driving, illegal operation and other violations of laws and regulations during the transportation process, improve the management level, reduce traffic accidents, improve economic benefits, and verify the performance indicators of the Beidou system. The project is called "demonstration within demonstration", carrying the high hope of exploring Beidou's new idea of "military-civilian joint construction, joint management, shared win-win".

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