Storyline: China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System more than doubles base stations [Voice_over] In the one year since its launch, China's BeiDou ground station network has more than doubled the number of stations in its network, providing near millimeter accuracy for the country's mapping and surveying industries. In August of last year, the network was launched with some 3,300 base stations in various regions, sharing information for use in sectors like public welfare mapping, resource surveying, autonomous driving, precision agriculture and more. Today the system has close to 7,000 bases, which officials from the Ministry of Natural Resources say, has greatly improved the system's accuracy. [Sound_bite] Chen Jun, head, Department of Land Surveying and Mapping, Ministry of Natural Resources： "We have built a unified network, raising BeiDou's positioning accuracy from several meters to just a few centimeters, and even millimeters. In eastern regions, the average spacing between stations has reached 30 kilometers, while in the west, it is about 50 kilometers, forming a relatively uniform spatial distribution. The network now serves nearly 200,000 professional users nationwide." [Voice_over] According to a white paper released earlier this year by a semi-official Chinese industry body, the 2024 output value of China's satellite navigation industry was close to 80 billion U.S. dollars, a more than seven percent increase from the year prior. [Restrictions : No access Chinese mainland]