Beidou system to expand into HK

Move paves way for navigation service to access overseas markets in future

Hong Kong marks the first stop on the road to expanding the Chinese mainland's self-developed Beidou Navigation Satellite System into a worldwide network, said a top executive of the company.

"The Asian financial center stands as the bridgehead and incubator to bolster the system's 'going global' vision," Zhang Zuxin, chairman of Hong Kong-based BD International Technology Group Ltd, told China Daily in Hong Kong on Thursday. "What's going on in Hong Kong will essentially add flesh to the bones of the mega plan for the global venture of the system."