12 April 2022
As of the end of 2021, more than 7.9 million vehicles had been equipped with the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS); nearly 8,000 sets of BeiDou terminals of various types had been used in the railway sector; over 100,000 agricultural machines had been equipped with self-driving system based on the BDS; and the output value of downstream operation and service links, including health care, epidemic prevention and sterilization, remote monitoring and online services, reached nearly 200 billion RMB (31.4 billion USD). BDS is employed to provide precise positioning and timing information for all kinds of intelligent machines to help them perceive the surrounding environment and make decisions properly. A big number of users in ASEAN, South Asia, Eastern Europe, West Asia, Africa and other regions are receiving Beidou-related high-quality services for local economic and social development.
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