On October 25, the Third International Summit on Beidou Scale Application and Forum on Integrating Beidou New Technologies with Mass Consumer Applications took place in Zhuzhou, Hunan Province. During the summit, a list of pilot cities for Beidou scale applications in the industrial and information sectors was announced, with 39 cities selected, including the host city, Zhuzhou.
The pilot cities will focus on three key areas: mass consumption, industrial manufacturing, and integrated innovation. Over the next two years, they will leverage their local Beidou industry foundations, urban development characteristics, and construction status to boost the penetration of Beidou technologies and facilitate a smooth upgrade from earlier generations to Beidou III devices and applications.
In recent years, Zhuzhou has strategically prioritized the Beidou industry as one of its “three new initiatives,” concentrating resources and efforts to cultivate this sector. This focus has transformed the Beidou industry from an emerging field into a burgeoning one, bringing the once distant Beidou technology closer to everyday life.
Currently, Zhuzhou’s spatial information industry cluster has reached a scale of 12.3 billion yuan. The Beidou industry is recognized as a provincial-level industrial cluster, housing around 130 related enterprises, including 100 that are sizable. The city has begun to establish a complete industrial chain that encompasses everything from component research and development to satellite manufacturing and operational applications.
The forum, co-hosted by the Hunan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, the Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Hunan Academy of Advanced Technology, focused on constructing a new generation of information technology infrastructure. It addressed trends in Beidou technology development and the integration of these innovations into the mass consumer sector. Discussions included exploring the extensive application prospects of Beidou technology in consumer markets and collaboratively promoting the development of the Beidou industry.
Experts attending the forum unanimously emphasized the necessity of deepening collaborative innovation among industry, academia, and research institutions. They advocated for leveraging the high-precision temporal and spatial reference information from the Beidou system to accelerate its integration with new technologies such as 5G, cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence. This integration aims to diversify Beidou product offerings and enhance its applications in smart transportation, smart travel, smartphones, and wearable devices, fostering new business models and patterns in the consumer sector while facilitating deep integration of Beidou applications across various industries to boost quality productivity.
