White paper: China’s satellite navigation and location-based service industry total output value reached about 470 billion yuan

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 4 (reporter, Hu Zhe, Wen Jinghua) The white paper "China’s Beidou in the New Era" released by the State Council Information Office on the 4th said that the Beidou application industry is developing rapidly. In 2021, the total output value of China’s satellite navigation and location-based service industry will reach about 470 billion yuan.

In terms of product manufacturing, Beidou chips, modules and other series of key technologies have continued to make breakthroughs, and product shipments have grown rapidly. By the end of 2021, the total social ownership of end point products with Beidou positioning function exceeded 1 billion units/set.

In terms of industry services, the Beidou system is widely used in all walks of life, generating significant economic and social benefits. By the end of 2021, more than 7.80 million road operating vehicles were installed and used the Beidou system, nearly 8,000 Beidou end points of various models were applied and promoted in the railway field, and the agricultural machinery automatic driving system based on the Beidou system exceeded 100,000 units/set. The output value of downstream operation services such as medical health, epidemic prevention and disinfection, remote monitoring, and online services was nearly 200 billion yuan.

In terms of mass applications, Beidou mass applications represented by smartphones and smart wearable devices have made a comprehensive breakthrough, and the products of international mainstream chip manufacturers, including smartphone device suppliers, widely support Beidou. In 2021, 324 million domestic smartphone shipments supported Beidou, accounting for 94.5% of the total domestic smartphone shipments.

The white paper emphasizes that in the new era, China’s Beidou will adhere to the application in development and development in application, constantly consolidate the product foundation, expand the application field, improve the industrial ecology, continue to promote the large-scale application of Beidou, promote the deep integration of Beidou application into the national economy, promote the healthy development of Beidou application industry, and inject strong impetus into economic and social development.