With the successful launch of the last Beidou satellite in June this year, all 55 Beidou satellites have been in place so far, and the Beidou navigation system has successfully completed the global network. Immediately after, China announced on July 31 that the Beidou navigation system was fully completed and opened to provide services to countries around the world. In the Apple mobile phone released in the second half of this year, it also clearly supports the Beidou navigation system for the first time, which shows that Beidou's influence is rapidly expanding. So what is the performance of Beidou in application so far? A recently published data says it all.
Japan’s Nikkei Asian Review reported on November 25 that in Addis Ababa, the capital of the African country, Ethiopia, a large city with a population of nearly 5 million, the popularity of online food delivery company Deliver Addis has soared recently. The reason is that its APP can deliver food to the customer's location very accurately, so it is well received. The reason why
can provide such a precise delivery service is inseparable from the support of China's satellite navigation technology. Furukawa Miyuki, the owner of a Japanese restaurant in the local area, told reporters that since she came here from Japan 13 years ago, smartphone positioning technology has advanced by leaps and bounds.
In fact, these are just a microcosm. According to the data of the US satellite signal receiving company, in the world’s 195 major countries, there are 165 national capitals. The frequency of Beidou satellite observation is higher than that of the US GPS. It is a very indicator data, which means that Beidou is gradually replacing the unshakable position of GPS in the past.
Japanese media also pointed out that there are as many as 30 Beidou satellites in Addis Ababa that continuously transmit signals. This scale is twice that of GPS. It is on this basis that Beidou satellites can provide more speed and accuracy. Location service. Of course, this achievement is not all due to Beidou Satellite, which is also largely due to the high local penetration rate of cheap Chinese smartphones.
Over the past decades, Western countries have taken advantage of their own first-mover advantages in many traditional fields and formed monopoly positions. These are the foundations for the United States to maintain global hegemony. However, the situation has changed a lot in recent years. Although Europe and Japan remain unchanged, the new player from China has squeezed in, giving the United States a very strong sense of crisis.
In today's highly developed Internet technology, all information is finally aggregated into various data. It can be said that whoever has more comprehensive data will be able to take the lead in the application field. The various positioning information provided by Beidou satellites is also a kind of important data to a certain extent, and mastering this kind of data can not only flex its muscles in the commercial field, but also play an important role in national security.
is gratifying that the achievements of the Beidou satellite navigation system in the past few months have allowed us to win the initial victory against the US GPS in this competition. However, the global battle for data dominance is a It’s a long process, and we must take every step of it well.
It is worth mentioning that the success of the Beidou satellite is inseparable from our principle of self-reliance. I would also like to thank the European Space Agency, which made troubles for China’s participation in cooperation, and China’s use of GPS for its hindrance. In the United States, they forced the Chinese astronauts to rely on themselves. The last step has come to the present. In the past two years, the United States has begun to repeat the same tricks, wanting to block some high-tech fields, and whether this is a hindrance or an assist, it will be known a few years later.
