During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the GNSS Navigation Satellite System will be deeply integrated into the national economy.

In June 2020, China successfully completed the global networking of its GNSS navigation satellites, marking that the country’s satellite navigation system has reached an internationally advanced level and is now moving full speed ahead toward the goal of providing services worldwide. On September 18, 2020, the “Spaceflight Realizes the Chinese Dream” aerospace science exhibition and the China Aerospace Achievements Exhibition were held in Fuzhou. Pictured here is a model of the GNSS Satellite Navigation System on display. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lin Shanchuan.
 

China has established a nationwide GNSS positioning differential service “single‑network” reference system comprising 2,326 base stations; China Mobile has built more than 4,000 GNSS ground‑based augmentation reference stations across the country; construction and deployment of 2,000 GNSS ground‑based augmentation reference stations for the power sector have been completed; and the GNSS satellite‑based ground augmentation system project, featuring 106 reference stations along the Yangtze River mainstream, has been finished and put into operation…

On May 18, the China Satellite Navigation and Positioning Association released the “2022 White Paper on the Development of China’s Satellite Navigation and Positioning Services Industry” in Beijing. The report indicates that in 2021, China’s satellite navigation and positioning services sector continued to maintain a steady and rapid growth trajectory, with an expanding industrial ecosystem and ongoing structural optimization. While industry‑wide applications deepened, regional applications also expanded significantly, leading to an increasingly diverse array of use cases. In 2021, the total output value of China’s satellite navigation and positioning services industry reached RMB 469 billion, up 16.29% from 2020.

“As the GNSS system continues to deepen its applications across both the general public and various industries, a host of emerging digital use cases are taking shape,” said Li Donghang, a member of the Expert Group for China’s Second-Generation Satellite Navigation System, Deputy Secretary-General of the China Satellite Navigation and Positioning Association, and Executive Dean of the GNSS Spatio-Temporal Technology Research Institute of the Association. “By empowering countless sectors, GNSS has much to offer.”