en.Wedoany.com Reported - On May 18, the GNSS & LBS Association of China (GLAC) released the "2026 White Paper on the Development of China's BeiDou Spatiotemporal Industry" in Beijing. The white paper shows that in 2025, the total output value of China's BeiDou spatiotemporal industry reached 1,332.3 billion yuan, steadily entering a new stage of high-quality development. Among this, the satellite navigation industry, which serves as the foundation of the BeiDou spatiotemporal industry, achieved a total output value of 629 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.24%, demonstrating strong development resilience and growth potential.
This marks the first time the GLAC has upgraded its research scope to the "BeiDou Spatiotemporal Industry" after releasing industry white papers for fourteen consecutive years, signifying that the development of China's BeiDou industry and related research has entered a new phase. The white paper points out that the BeiDou spatiotemporal industry is a comprehensive industrial system centered on the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, deeply integrating various technological means such as remote sensing geographic information, mobile communications, and indoor positioning. Zhang Huifeng, President of the GLAC, stated at the press conference that the most distinctive feature of the BeiDou spatiotemporal industry in 2025 is the leap from "satellite navigation" to "spatiotemporal services," presenting a development trend of "technological integration, application scenario diversification, and ecological diversification." The pace of industrial iteration and upgrading continues to accelerate, and core competitiveness is constantly improving.
To date, China has established a complete BeiDou spatiotemporal industry chain and supply chain, spanning from chips, modules, antennas, and terminals to system integration and application services, with the level of self-reliance and controllability continuously improving. The cumulative shipments of BeiDou-compatible chips and modules have approached 2.6 billion units (including smartphones), achieving a scale of hundreds of millions, effectively supporting the secure and stable development of the independent industrial and supply chains.
At the terminal application level, the BeiDou system has fully entered a new stage of large-scale, industrialized, and global application. The latest data shows that in 2025, the total sales volume of domestic BeiDou terminal products exceeded 410 million units/sets, and the total social保有量 of various types of terminal products with BeiDou functionality surpassed 2.2 billion units/sets (including smartphones). Among these, the shipment volume of smartphones with BeiDou positioning functionality was nearly 280 million units, and by the end of 2025, nearly 1.4 billion smartphones supported BeiDou positioning, accounting for approximately 98% of the total. The保有量 of wearable devices supporting BeiDou positioning exceeded 160 million units, and over 100 million passenger vehicles were deployed with onboard equipment featuring BeiDou positioning and navigation functions. The terminal sales volume in the car navigation market exceeded 24 million units, and the sales volume of various monitoring and positioning terminal devices, including handheld, IoT, wearable, vehicle-mounted, high-precision, and shipborne types, exceeded 120 million units/sets.
In the field of industry applications, the保有量 of BeiDou terminal equipment in major domestic industries has approached 40 million units/sets, a year-on-year increase of over 23.96%, with the comprehensive application penetration rate in key industries reaching approximately 90%. In the communications sector, 5G base stations and BeiDou are being integrated and upgraded into new digital infrastructure integrating communication, navigation, and sensing, expanding service coverage from the ground to low-altitude and underground areas. In the power sector, over 400,000 units/sets of various terminals for BeiDou positioning, timing, and short message communication have been promoted and applied across the industry, and the state has completed the construction and deployment of over 3,000 BeiDou ground-based augmentation reference stations for the power industry.
Significant progress has also been made in overseas application markets. BeiDou system services and related products have been exported to over 140 countries and regions. Through localized cooperation, Chinese enterprises have established more than 20 overseas service centers along the Belt and Road Initiative, demonstrating strong enabling effects and market competitiveness, with BeiDou's international discourse power and influence continuously rising.
Looking ahead to the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the state will continue to implement the BeiDou large-scale application project, which is expected to drive the scale of the satellite navigation industry to exceed one trillion yuan within five years, and accelerate the expansion of BeiDou's widespread application in mass consumption, public services, and emerging fields such as autonomous driving, the low-altitude economy, and intelligent robotics. From the completion of the BeiDou-3 global network in 2020 to the BeiDou industry moving towards a trillion-yuan scale in 2026, the BeiDou system has completed a crucial leap from construction to application.
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