In the first half of this year, Wuhan's Beidou industry – a strategic emerging industry based on China's Beidou global satellite navigation system – achieved a remarkable milestone, surpassing 33.9 billion yuan ($4.74 billion) in scale, marking a 31 percent year-on-year growth. This positions Wuhan as the largest Beidou industry hub in Central China.

Beidou technology is now making significant inroads across various sectors in Wuhan, becoming a new engine for high-quality economic development.

In June, Mengxin Technology launched a new generation of high-precision SoC chips, signaling that China welcomes the Beidou 2.0 chip era. Exsun Beidou Space Time recently developed three high-precision Beidou modules, using the country's first domestically developed 14-nanometer Beidou high-precision timing chip. These modules are now widely applied in fields like robotics, autonomous driving, and farmland protection.

Nearly 100,000 passenger and freight vehicles, 9,000 buses, and passenger ships on the Yangtze River have achieved a 100 percent Beidou terminal application rate. Additionally, over 500,000 shared bicycles are equipped with Beidou positioning systems.

"Previously, the 'Beidou+' industrial development pattern was primarily about technological empowerment," said Lou Yidong, deputy director of the Satellite Navigation and Positioning Technology Research Center at Wuhan University. "Now, it has transitioned into a model of '+Beidou' which is driven by demand, especially in emerging industries like smart drones, the low-altitude economy, and humanoid robots, leading to a large-scale, full-ecosystem Beidou application landscape."