The strategic alliance of Asia-location services and smart city industrial technology innovation singed cooperative deals to promote the use of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) with universities and companies from Laos, Myanmar, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Maldives at the Third China-ASEAN Expo on June 13, according to China News Service.

It indicates that China, as the third country with its self-developed satellite navigation system after the United States and Russia, begins to provide service in South Asian and Southeast Asian countries.

In addition to car navigation and information service and vehicle monitoring and management, Satellite navigation systems can also be used in many areas such as geological disaster monitoring and early warning, cross-border logistics, tourism, and ecological protection.