China’s BeiDou platform expands to nearly 7,000 base stations, bringing millimeter-level accuracy

China's national Beidou high-precision navigation and positioning service platform has consolidated nearly 7,000 base stations into a unified national network, providing high-precision positioning services with millimeter-level accuracy, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources of China.

Launched in 2024, the unified network is a key supporting infrastructure for the operation of the country's self-developed BeiDou Navigation System, offering centralized management of station resources. The network now encompasses 6,951 base stations across China, a significant increase from the 3,363 stations at the project's inception.

Those include 420 national-level stations, 3,093 provincial-level stations, and 3438 coordinating stations.

"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," said Zhang Jun, head of the Department of Land Surveying and Mapping under the Ministry of Natural Resources.

The network provides seamless, high-precision positioning services across the country, delivering real-time, accurate and reliable navigation for sectors including public welfare mapping, resource surveying, intelligent transportation, autonomous driving, precision agriculture and social governance.

"Next, we will further refine relevant policies and regulations and enhance data sharing and use to support natural resource management, urban renewal, and emerging sectors such as the low-altitude economy. This will accelerate the industrialization and large-scale application of BeiDou," said Chen.

China’s BeiDou platform expands to nearly 7,000 base stations, bringing millimeter-level accuracy

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said on Monday that the situation in Iran is "under total control" following violence linked to protests that spiked over the weekend.

Addressing foreign diplomats in Tehran, the foreign minister noted that armed terrorist groups had infiltrated the protests, attempting to divert them from their legitimate course. He claimed that evidence has been gathered showing Iranian security forces being shot at, with the aim of causing further casualties. He accused the United States and Israel of exploiting the unrest to interfere in Iran's internal affairs.

Araghchi further stated that the government is closely monitoring developments on the streets, emphasizing that "the situation has come under control." He also affirmed that internet services, curtailed during the unrest, would be restored after coordination with security agencies.

The government has engaged in dialogue with merchants and protest representatives and initiated reforms to address grievances related to price hikes and currency depreciation. Iran has taken a series of actions and measures to respond to the demands of peaceful demonstrators, the foreign minister said.

Earlier on Sunday, Araghchi said that clear evidence links recent riots and vandalism of public facilities in Iran to the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. This came after former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo mentioned Mossad agents operating on Iran's streets in a social media post. The Iranian foreign minister asserted that police are being attacked by "terrorists" acting under the direction of Israeli operatives, whom Pompeo publicly acknowledged.

The protests initially erupted over a sharp depreciation of the rial and sweeping subsidy reforms. Iranian authorities have blamed the unrest on foreign-linked agents and U.S. sanctions.

Iranian foreign minister says situation "fully under control," accuses Israeli intelligence of stoking unrest