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China will launch another 11 BeiDou-3 satellites by the end of 2018, adding to its domestic BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), said an official at an academic conference on Wednesday.

China has already launched eight BeiDou-3 satellites. The satellites will provide initial services for countries and regions along the Belt and Road by the end of the year, said Wang Li, chairman of China Satellite Navigation System Committee.

Addressing the Ninth China Satellite Navigation Conference in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Wang said the BeiDou system is moving to become a global service provider after offering stable and reliable time and space information for clients in the Asia-Pacific region.

China launched the first two BeiDou-3 satellites into space via a single carrier rocket in November 2017, as its self-developed BeiDou system officially began to expand into a global network.

Named after the Chinese term for the Big Dipper constellation, the BeiDou project was formally initiated in 1994. It began to serve China in 2000 and the Asia-Pacific region at the end of 2012.

By around 2020, when the BeiDou system goes global, it will have more than 30 satellites.

Compared to earlier generation satellites, the BeiDou-3 is able to send signals that are more compatible with other satellite navigation systems and provide satellite-based augmentation, as well as search and rescue services in accordance with international standards. Its positioning accuracy has reached 2.5 to 5 meters.

The BeiDou system will coordinate with other technology, such as remote sensing, Internet, big data and cloud computing, in the future, said Wang.

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Compared to earlier generation satellites, the BeiDou-3 is able to send signals that are more compatible with other satellite navigation systems and provide satellite-based augmentation, as well as search and rescue services in accordance with international standards. Its positioning accuracy has reached 2.5 to 5 meters.

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The BDS-3 includes the migration of its civil B1 signal from 1561.098 MHz to a frequency centered at 1575.42 MHz, which is the same as the GPS L1 and Galileo E1 civil signals, and its transformation from a quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulation to a multiplexed binary offset carrier (MBOC) modulation similar to the future GPS L1C and Galileo E1

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It's interesting how when they win in any sort of competition, they tell the world that's life and get over it if they're bothered. But if they see themselves losing, the world must stop and go through some moralistic and ethical soul-searching on what's wrong here. Of course American venture capitalists are worried because in the end it's all about the money. They're not investing in Chinese start-ups. They won't be making the money from whatever Chinese technology develops first. I just read a statistic somewhere that 50% of all venture capitalist money is going to China meaning 50% of all venture capitalist money is not going to Western start-ups. I suspect that's mostly Chinese money because what makes a Western venture capitalist not have the same prejudices that everyone else has on everything in China? Look at the Asian woman on the panel perpetuating the propaganda that most rich Chinese want to get out of China for Western freedom yet ironically by their own words a more restrictive environment in tech and certainly on how they can make money. What does the West have that they yearn to want more restrictions on developing tech and making more money in their lives? Political freedom? Sorry but Asians don't see political freedom as important because then Asian-Americans wouldn't have one of the most abysmal voter registration rates especially among immigrants that become citizens. Look at the Hong Kong activists who intimidated and threatened anyone who disagreed with them. That's not political freedom. Then the other way around if a Westerner doesn't like China, it's not because of the lack of freedom. They're just not use to a culture that doesn't cater to them first.

The only reason why Westerners always point to how China is less restrictive aka no morals and ethics is again China has to follow doing everything their way. In other words they get to dictate what China can research and develop. In other words preventing China from beating the West in developing new technologies. How do they get to determine how much data accumulated for AI is moral and ethnical to collect? Facebook customer data was abused to a point where it influenced an election yet still not considered crossing the line when compared to China. If they admitted that crossed the line then they wouldn't be in a position to tell China what was moral and ethical. Every time they question how China does it is because they want to regulate it like a communist. We already know the US complains that some how the Chinese government is not allowed to help Chinese companies. Do you think Space X would survive without US government contracts? They just change the words around for it being a government subsidy.

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China will soon establish its first industrial base for the development of two-dimensional barcodes, or QR codes, as companies rush to tap opportunities created by the widespread technology.

The China Electronics Chamber of Commerce (CECC) has signed agreements with Lianhuashan eco-tourism resort and the northeastern branch of Beijing E-hualu Information Technology Company to build the project in Changchun, capital city of northeast China's Jilin Province.

With total investment of 3 billion yuan (around 470 million US dollars), the project will contain a blue-ray storage data center, a scientific research area, an experience zone, and an incubator.

From mobile payment to shared bikes and messaging apps, QR codes are widely used in China and have made everyday life more convenient.

The industrial complex will focus on standardization, sales, R&D and QR code services, and will help promote China's domestic system globally, said Zhang Chao, executive director of the China Registration & Certification Center of Two-dimensional Code, which plans to build similar bases across the country.

The center is a third-party public institution established by the CECC and the China Quality Certification Center.

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The 2018 China International Big Data Expo ends on May 29. During the four-day event, the exciting tech exhibition, the in-depth Internet giant leaders dialogues, e-commerce summits gave a wonderful journey to all the people participated.

Now let’s look at the latest thoughts and ideas shared by those industry tycoons who have reshaped China’s economy with CGTN.

Jack Ma Yun: how to alleviate poverty by taking advantage of the big data?

Despite its fast economic growth, China still has tens of millions of people living in poverty. How to help people get out of it remains the toughest problem for the country leaders.

Echoing with the theme, Jack Ma pointed out poverty alleviation is not about just giving money, but to teach the poor how to make money by themselves, how to make best use of their own assets--the land they live on to monetize it into an agriculture industry powered by the high-tech? And how big data can help farmers sell their products?

Companies like Alibaba are expected to address the market needs by targeting the potential customers for farmers based on the technology they have. Only in this way can people living in poverty find a way to count on themselves.

Speaking of the current hot technology trends like AI, quantum computing, chips, Pony, chairman of Tencent Holdings, emphasized Chinese companies should keep a close eye on the basic scientific research in the core technology fields.

“You have no idea when people will catch up with you if you don’t take it seriously.” He told the audience at the “Digital Economy” dialogue session.

China’s digitalization has expanded at a speed faster than ever before, covering from individual users, companies to even the government agencies. As one of China’s Internet giant with the largest user base, Tencent aims to bridge the gap and make the benefits accessible to all.

Robin Li Yanhong: Security; Forever ad-free app; AI ethics

Thanks to the rapid development of high-tech, Guiyang, the capital of southwestern Guizhou Province in southwest China, is now home to China’s first big data pilot zone. It can be set as an example for the whole world that a less-developed region is able to transform into a major technology centre.

When it comes to poverty alleviation, Jack also mentioned that charity is for the people in need, but public welfare is the for sake of everybody. Employees within Alibaba will continue to take a longer view to assist people getting rid of poverty.

Pony Ma Huateng: China risks losing out of other countries on core technologies

Robin expressed his concern over the security of the self-driving vehicle. He promised during this year’s two Session meetings that those autonomous cars will be delivered at a large scale by the end of July. He reassured safety should be the “first law”.

At the keynote speech, Robin advertised Baidu’s latest ad-free app--Simple Search Engine. Featuring image-scanning and voice-activated search, this application is able to tailor the search to the different mode like “adults”, “standard”, “children” based on users’ voice characters.

He also made some comments on the future AI development during his first public appearance after Baidu’s former AI chief operating officer Lu Qi stepping down from the office.

“The vision for AI is to ensure people have more equal access to technologies and its capabilities. Both Baidu and society should rethink values about AI” said Li.

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