China authorized operation of national satellite-navigation reference-station service data, enabling compliant circulation of high-precision BeiDou spatiotemporal data.

China formally authorized the operation of service data from its national satellite-navigation and positioning reference-station network. The announcement was made at a September 4 meeting jointly organized by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the National Data Administration.

The initiative was described as China’s first national-level public-data authorization program in the field of spatiotemporal information infrastructure. It moves reference-station network data from an underutilized public resource toward authorized operational use.

The stated objective is to allow the data to circulate and be used compliantly as a data asset. The authorization was also described as marking a new market-oriented operating stage for high-precision BeiDou spatiotemporal data.

The source did not identify the authorized operator, pricing model, licensing conditions, application-programming interfaces, geographic-resolution limits, data-update frequency, or participating commercial users.