Space breakthrough

With the aim of making technological breakthroughs, the Jilin government established Chang Guang Satellite Technology in 2014, the country's first commercial remote sensing satellite company.

In October 2015, four Jilin-1 commercial satellites were sent into space. So far, the company has sent 25 Jilin-1 satellites into orbit and has built the country's largest commercial remote sensing satellite constellation, the company said.

The constellation can update the global map twice a year and national maps seven times a year. It can also provide high-quality remote sensing information and product services for the agricultural and forestry sectors, environmental monitoring, geographical mapping and land planning.

Jilin-1 is China's first independently developed commercial high-resolution remote sensing satellite. It's the first such device launched under the name of a province that offers a range of resolutions.

"With the mission of serving 7 billion people on the globe with a remote sensing information product integrating sky, space and the ground, we aim to build an internet-based remote sensing information platform and constantly introduce innovative products. The company is going all out to promote the industrial transformation and upgrading of Jilin province and to drive the revitalization of the old industrial base in Northeast China," the company said.

In 2017, Xuan Ming, the company's chairman, told Jilin Daily that many other domestic commercial satellite companies have sprung up in the fields of remote sensing, communications, navigation and other areas.

"The development of the country's commercial aerospace projects is promising. I hope more enterprises will cooperate with us to improve the industry," he said.