BeiDou to have base station in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

China today said it plans to build precision service infrastructure for its indigenous Beidou satellite navigation system, a rival to US Global Positioning System (GPS) in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
Precision service infrastructure for BeiDou satellite navigation system will be built on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as part of efforts to create a nationwide base station network for high precision navigation and positioning by 2018, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
The infrastructure will be built in Qinghai's Xining, the provincial capital, and Haidong City, an official with the First Institute of Surveying and Mapping of Qinghai as saying.
The infrastructure is critical to practical navigation and includes base station networks, data processing, broadcasting systems and user terminals, which together will help provide more precision services.

BeiDou is the Chinese equivalent of the US NAVSTAR Global Positioning System and Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System.
Currently, BeiDou owns 20 satellites.
The system began to provide precision positioning, real-time navigation, location reporting, precise time reading and short message services for users in China and the Asia-Pacific in December 2012.
The government aims to make it a global system by 2020.