China will build a testing and certification network for its Beidou satellite navigation system over the next three years to sharpen the system’s global competitiveness.
The National Academies Press has released Global Navigation Satellite Systems, the report of a joint workshop of the National Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Engineering held in Shanghai, China, on May 24 and 25, 2011.
China represents a huge potential market for Western GNSS companies, even though the country has a strong and growing GNSS capability of its own. Before booking a flight to Shanghai or Beijing, however, some careful preliminary research will likely pay off: looking for potential Chinese industry partners with whom you would jointly work to open a market niche. The key ingredient — a huge investment in developing personal relationships, two-way trust, and understanding — is the only way to really penetrate the Chinese market. This month’s columns recaps some of the highlights of our recent webinar on this topic, and explores further with questions from our audience and the answers from our panel of experience China businesspeople.
When I first visited Beijing a few years ago, I came there from a stop in India. This was just before the Olympics in 2008, but there were signs then of big-scale preparations in terms of highway infrastructure and building. As the two most populous countries in the world, India (1.13 billion people) and China (1.3 billion people) both are making huge strides forward. China does appear for the moment, however, to be more focused on the commercialization of GNSS.
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