03 January 2020
Beidou has had great applications in a string of areas including transportation, electrical power, fisheries, mining and agriculture, said Wang Yanyan, Deputy Secretary General of the Global Navigation Satellite System and Location-Based Services Association of China. Official data showed that the direct output of domestic satellite industries exceeded 300 billion RMB ($43 billion) by the end of 2019, with Beidou contributing 70 to 80 percent of the total. "In addition to the navigation function that is well-known to the public, Beidou's applications in areas like pipe leakage detection has also made substantial progress," Wang said. She noted that Beidou's technology in pipe network detection has already been applied in at least 600 cities, counties and towns across China. Beidou has recently cooperated with Swiss industrial giant ABB in launching the world's first gas leakage detection system with an accuracy as fine as ppb or parts per billion, overturning the traditional accuracy of parts per million seen worldwide.
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