China News Service, Chongqing, September 24 (Reporter Liu Xian) In the sky, on the water, on the ground, underground... As the only municipality to include the entire Beidou scale application pilot city construction, Chongqing Beidou scale application is advancing in depth and has initially formed a spatio-temporal information industry cluster covering "basic products - terminal manufacturing - system integration and operation services".
The development of global digitalization is accelerating day by day, and spatio-temporal information and positioning and navigation services have become important new infrastructures. In order to speed up the cultivation of Beidou's large-scale application, in October 2024, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology officially launched the construction of pilot cities for Beidou's large-scale application. As of the first half of 2026, Chongqing ranks first in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's ranking of 39 pilot cities across the country.
At the press conference on the construction of pilot cities for large-scale Beidou application in Chongqing on the 24th, Tang Shouyuan, a member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Chongqing Municipal Economic and Information Commission, introduced that as of the first half of 2026, Chongqing has promoted a total of more than 1.05 million Beidou independent positioning terminals (sets), accounting for 8.8% of the country; the comprehensive application penetration rate of Beidou terminals in key industries has reached 100%.
In the process of pilot city construction, Chongqing has demonstrated outstanding scene advantages and industrial advantages.
When answering a question from a reporter from China News Network, Tang Shouyuan analyzed that Chongqing is a megacity integrating large urban areas, large rural areas, large mountainous areas, and large reservoir areas. The complex and diverse geographical environment and urban form have formed rich and three-dimensional application scenarios, providing a unique "natural testing ground" for the implementation of new technologies such as Beidou. In 2025, Chongqing will produce 2.79 million automobiles and 7.86 million motorcycles, both ranking first among cities in the country; notebook computer production has ranked first in the world for 12 consecutive years. The creation of the intelligent networked new energy vehicle capital and the electronic information advanced manufacturing cluster in the Chengdu-Chongqing region provides a solid industrial foundation and rich application scenarios for Beidou applications.
Chongqing has planned and implemented 62 long-span, comprehensive application scenarios, focusing on creating "Transportation + Beidou" and "Emergency + Beidou" application scenarios with characteristics of mountainous cities.
In the sky, the "Jiutian Hangyu" low-altitude intelligent network connection system and the "Beidou Positioning + Communication Module" have realized the orderly and safe operation of drones and orbital drone inspection applications, and have been selected into the country's first batch of typical cases of low-altitude economic application scenarios.
On the water surface, the Beidou application on the Yangtze River waterway explores ways and means to ensure smooth communication on the water under extreme circumstances; in the dangerous rock disaster prevention and control scenarios in the Three Gorges Reservoir area, millimeter-level real-time monitoring and early warning are achieved.
On the ground, Beidou applications for public vehicles such as taxis, buses, and shared electric bicycles have built a modern transportation network that is smooth, efficient, and safe. Beidou applications for multi-span collaborative joint logistics command have built a flat command system with vertical connectivity and horizontal collaboration.
Beidou applications in underground, indoor parking garages, underground loops and other scenarios have become a model for digital management of ultra-large urban underground spaces, filling the gap in indoor lane-level navigation in the industry.
The local area has initially formed a spatio-temporal information industry cluster covering "basic products - terminal manufacturing - system integration and operation services", with 350 industry companies and an annual output value exceeding 40 billion yuan. Leading enterprises and research institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Aerospace Science and Technology, and China Space and Time have established their presence in Chongqing. The National Time Service Southwest Time Center fills the shortcomings of time service infrastructure in the western region.
Tang Shouyuan said that in the next step, Chongqing will focus on mountainous cities, megacities and other scenarios, plan and implement a number of characteristic Beidou large-scale application projects, and promote the spatio-temporal information industry to accelerate towards a 100-billion-level industrial cluster.
