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Article: China expected to use Galileo satellite navigation system in 2008

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December 7, 2006
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China expected to use Galileo satellite navigation system in 2008

NANJING, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- The European Union's Galileo satellite navigation system, a rival to the reigning global positioning system (GPS)of the United States, is expected to be operational in China in 2008.

The 30-satellite system, with a navigational fix accurate to within one meter, will provide safe, reliable and accurate navigational information for Chinese users in fields of civil aviation, railway, waterway and road transportation, according to a Sino-EU technology cooperation symposium in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province.

China officially joined the project in 2004 and invested 200 million euros ...

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