On October 25, the third International Summit on the Large-Scale Application of Beidou took place in Zhuzhou, Hunan, featuring a forum focused on the integration of new Beidou technologies and mass consumer applications. During the event, a list of pilot cities for the Beidou large-scale application initiative in the industrial and information sectors was released, with 39 cities selected, including Zhuzhou, the host city.
According to reports, these pilot cities will focus on three key areas: mass consumption, industrial manufacturing, and integrated innovation. They aim to leverage their local Beidou industrial foundation, urban development characteristics, and construction status over a two-year trial period. This initiative is designed to accelerate the penetration of Beidou technology and facilitate a smooth upgrade of Beidou equipment and applications towards the third generation.
In recent years, Zhuzhou has prioritized the Beidou industry as one of its “New Three” sectors, concentrating resources for focused cultivation aimed at enhancing the quality and speed of Beidou industry development. The city is working towards comprehensive large-scale applications of Beidou technology, transforming the concept of “Beidou in the sky” into “Beidou at hand.”
Currently, Zhuzhou boasts a spatial information industry cluster worth 12.3 billion yuan, with the Beidou industry recognized as a provincial-level industrial cluster. The city has attracted 130 Beidou-related enterprises, including 100 large-scale companies, establishing a complete industrial chain from component research and development and satellite manufacturing to constellation operation and application scenarios.
The forum, co-organized by the Hunan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s Fifth Research Institute, and the Hunan Advanced Technology Research Institute, centered on new-generation information technology infrastructure, trends in Beidou technology development, and their integration into the mass consumer sector. Experts at the event emphasized the importance of deepening collaborative innovation among industry, academia, and research. They stressed the need to fully harness the high-precision spatial-time reference information provided by the Beidou system, accelerating its integration with new technologies such as 5G, cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence. This will enhance product diversity and stimulate markets for Beidou applications in sectors like smart transportation, smart mobility, smartphones, and wearable devices, ultimately fostering new consumer application models and promoting deep integration of Beidou technology across various industries to support the development of new productive forces.
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