In 2022, the Beidou system has further integrated into the daily lives of the people, forming more application scenarios and effectively expanding the application scale of the Beidou mass market. In 2022, the domestic shipment volume of smartphones reached 264 million units, of which 260 million units support the Beidou function, accounting for approximately 98.5%. On May 18th, the China Satellite Navigation and Positioning Association released the "2023 White Paper on the Development of China's Satellite Navigation and Location Services Industry" in Beijing. This is the information learned by the reporter from the press conference. The white paper shows that in 2022, the overall output value of China's satellite navigation and location service industry reached 500.7 billion yuan, an increase of 6.76% compared to 2021. Among them, the related output value generated by satellite navigation applications and services increased by 7.54% year-on-year, reaching 348 billion yuan. Yu Xiancheng, President of the China Satellite Navigation and Positioning Association, introduced that in the past year, the Beidou system has further integrated into people's daily lives, forming more application scenarios and effectively expanding the application scale of the Beidou mass market. Baidu Maps and Gaode Maps have announced the official switch to Beidou Priority Positioning, with the daily usage of Beidou positioning services exceeding 360 billion times. In addition, currently, most mobile apps in China that involve map services, navigation, and shopping already support the Beidou application. The world's first mobile phone that supports short message communication services in the Beidou-3 region has been officially released. Users can send text messages through Beidou satellite without changing their cards or numbers or adding peripherals. In the field of disaster prevention and reduction, as of June 2022, the "Beidou+Security Intelligent Monitoring and Early Warning Cloud Platform" has been successfully applied to over 600 structures in industries or fields such as transportation, water conservancy, geological disasters, housing, emergency, energy, mining, environment, etc. in 20 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government) nationwide, with over 8000 monitoring points deployed and approximately 600 safety warnings completed. (New News Agency)