BeiDou

China's civil aircraft, of which there are roughly 3,800, will all be equipped with BeiDou equipment by 2024, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) said Wednesday.

By 2020, the overall output value of China's satellite navigation industry has exceeded 400 billion yuan, with an average annual growth of more than 20 percent.

The Beijing Subway Technology Innovation Institute was inaugurated today, and a number of new technologies will be used on the Beijing Subway, according to CCTV news.

The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) announced on October 14 its high-precision positioning service platform, which, based on its ability to support BeiDou's fast positioning service, is capable of achieving high-precision positioning targets.

Apple's iPhone 12 series comes with built-in support for five navigation satellites - GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS and BeiDou Satellite - according to specs released on Apple's website after today's launch.

Chinese EV maker NIO has signed a contract with the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) and it is expected that NIO vehicles will have even more accurate positioning capabilities in the future.

Bai Chunli, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said today that more than 300,000 Loongson 3A processors have been sold and the embedded Loongson chip has been successfully used in 10 BeiDou navigation satellites.

Shenzhen started a pilot plan to regulate shared bicycle parking with BeiDou's high-precision positioning, with the pilot range including the Xili Street, Taoyuan Street, Nanshan District, Baoan District, Xin'an Street, Xixiang Street, according to the Yangcheng Evening News.

At present, BeiDou and GPS III are a new stage in the development of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), but they still face two challenges, said Zhang Lixin, deputy chief engineer of BeiDou at China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.