China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) will carry out an in-orbit upgrade in the near future to further improve service quality and optimize the operational status of some satellites, according to the China Satellite Navigation Office.
During the upgrade period, the office said it will continue to strengthen joint commissioning and testing of satellites in orbit, as well as monitoring and maintenance of service performance, in order to ensure a stable user experience.
The BeiDou system is a mature, fully functional and high-performing global satellite navigation system, and it currently has 50 satellites in orbit. The accuracy of its space signal is better than two meters, while global positioning accuracy is better than 10 meters. The system also achieves a velocity measurement accuracy better than 0.2 meters per second and timing accuracy within 20 nanoseconds.
So far, the BeiDou system has become deeply integrated into China's overall economic and social development, continuing to provide high-precision positioning, navigation and timing services to a wide range of users, and serving as a key technological enabler for industrial development and people's daily life.
BeiDou Navigation Satellite System to carry out in-orbit upgrades
The newly passed National Development Planning Law will better support China's development objectives by ensuring the continuity, stability, and authority of national development plans through institutional measures, according to a senior legislative affairs official in Beijing.
The law was adopted on Thursday by the National People's Congress (NPC) , the supreme organ of state power, at the closing meeting of its annual session. It will govern how the country formulates and carries out its five-year development plans, formalizing a system that has long guided the world's second-largest economy. Drawing on China's long-standing experience in national development planning, the law codifies proven practices into a legal framework and aims to reinforce the strategic guiding role of national development plans.
Tong Weidong, director of the State Law Department of the Legislative Affairs Commission under the Standing Committee of NPC, said the law will help legalize and standardize national development planning.
"Formulating and implementing five-year plans have long been the 'winning formula' behind China's rapid economic growth and enduring social stability. China has implemented 14 consecutive five-year plans, achieving remarkable success and accumulating valuable experience that must be carefully reviewed. This session of the NPC deliberated and approved the National Development Planning Law, elevating our long-standing and well-established practices and experience in formulating and implementing national development plans into legal provisions. Strengthening institutional achievements through legislation will promote the legalization and standardization of national development planning," he said.
He said the law will boost the continuity, stability, and authority of national development plans going forward.
"Since the start of reform and opening up, the implementation of every five-year plan has been notably effective. Many plans have even exceeded their targets ahead of schedule. The National Development Planning Law includes provisions to ensure the continuity and stability of national development planning. The law enhances continuity, stability, and authority of national development plans through institutional measures such as stronger policy coordination and resource allocation, stricter procedural requirements for plan adjustments, and greater oversight by the NPC. This provides stable expectations for investment from both domestic and foreign capital," said the official.
Newly adopted development planning law to better serve China's development goals: legislative affairs official
