28 December 2013
China is planning to expand its home-grown Beidou navigation system by 2020 and make it accurate to within centimetres. Currently the system can reach an error margin as low as 5 meters in trials and can be further improved to within centimetres to compete with the dominant US Global Positioning System.
The navigation system has been providing accurate and stable services to Asia-Pacific users since China launched it a year ago and other countries in Asia are welcome to use it, Ran Chengqi, Director of the China Satellite Navigation Office, told a press conference in Beijing.
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