Timeline of China's top 10 space achievements of past decade

6. July 31, 2020

China announces that its domestically developed Beidou Navigation Satellite System has been completed and has started providing full-scale global services. Since 2000, a total of 59 Beidou satellites, including the first four experimental ones, have been launched from Xichang on 44 Long March 3-series rockets. Some of the satellites have since been retired.