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Year 
Output Value Estimation 
Source 
2002 
Y 0.2 billion 
Li Ying, Market Working Committee China 
Association of GIS 
2005 
>¥0.3 billion 
Domestic Spatial Information System software 
Evaluation Committee of China 
2006 
Y0.5 billion 
Cao Yujie, China Computer World 
Research (CCW Research) 
Table 4 The research list of GIS software industry size (Billion Yuan) 
Indicators 
Category 
Output value 
Method 
PCs 
The first category 
= 1.1 ($0. 4) 
Make survey 
PCns 
The second category 
>0.5($0.063) 
Questionnaire survey of 6 key companies and 
institutes 
PCo 
The third category 
Ignore 
Too much companies and institutes and not 
the major operation, it is difficult to obtain 
PC 
Total 
>1.6($0.2) 
Table 5 Method and value for mapping industrial Indicators Unit: Billion Yuan(Billion Dollar) 
According to the above study, the output value of Chinese GIS 
Projects(excluding hardware cost) is 2 billion Yuan. If including 
hardware cost, the output value reaches to 5 billion Yuan in 
2006. Namely, PGIS =5 billion Yuan (about $0.6billion). 
3.3 Value Access for RS industry indicators 
Currently, the industrialization application of satellite RS data in 
China mainly depends on the abroad. Remote sensing data 
provided by meteorological satellite and the marine satellite, 
which is made by China own, are mainly used in social public 
welfare services. Satellite data of "CBERS satellites" and 
"Beijing No.l" are mainly used in science research and 
government application field. There is a long way to its 
Industrial application. Through on-the-spot investigation to four 
key companies which are engaged in satellite remote sensing 
data reception and reselling, the study gets the Chinese satellite 
RS industry output value of over 0.18 billion Yuan. Namely, 
PRs>0.18 billion Yuan (about $0.02billion). 
3.4 Value Access for GNSS industry indicators 
Some Chinese experts and company made research and forecast 
on GNSS industry size (CAO Chong, 2001-2006; ZHOU RuXin, 
2004; CCID, 2006). By comparing and analyzing the results of 
the research, it is found that CAO Chong (2001) and CCID had 
more detailed research on the industry branch and the estimate 
value is larger than other research result. Both CAO Chong and 
CCID estimates that the Chinese GNSS industry output value is 
more than 20 billion Yuan (about $2.5billion) in 2006. ZHOU 
RuXin’s estimate on GNSS industry is relatively small that 
Chinese GNSS output reached only 10 billion Yuan (about 
$1.3billion) in 2005. From the estimated time, the data from 
CCID is the latest, but its classification, as well as the estimated 
value of the whole industry and its breakdown, is approximately 
the same as that of CAO Chong. Therefore, the study makes 
an expert visit to CAO Chong. According to the visit, the 
estimation and forecast of China’s GNSS industry size in 2001 
is based on global GNSS industry development status and 
trends. In 2000, the United States closed the GPS SA policy that 
would greatly promote the development of the global GPS 
industry. But in the following years, the global GNSS industry 
has not developed at the expected speed. So the real 
development rate is lower than the forecast. In 2006, CAO 
Chong makes a survey on China’s GNSS companies. By 
selecting representative companies with different types and 
scale as a typical abstract data validation, CAO Chong makes 
analysis and revises the original forecast value by using the 
updated information. 
The corrected result shows that China’s GNSS industry size is 
12 billion Yuan (about $1.5 billion) in 2006, of which surveying 
/ GIS application is about 1 percent. 
Namely: PGNg = 11.8 billion Yuan, (about $1.5billion) 
3.5 Value Access for Mapping Industry Indicators 
The study decomposes the mapping industry indicator into three 
categories: the first category is professional mapping companies 
and institutes belonging to SBSM, the second is professional 
mapping organizations belonging to other department, the third 
is non-professional mapping related companies and institutes. 
The total output of the first category mapping companies and 
institutes is 1.1 billion Yuan (about $0.14billion)(by SBSM). 
The six key mapping companies and institutes of the second 
category are selected for sampling survey. The result of the 
survey shows that the output value has reached 500 million 
Yuan (about $63million). The third category involves many 
companies and institutes which geospatial-related business is 
not major and is difficult to make statistics. The study doesn’t 
calculate the output value of this part. The value of mapping 
industry indicators is shown in table 5 below. 
3.6 Summary combined with the output value 
Based on the above study, the value of indicator of China’s 
geospatial industry breakdown is shown in table 6 below. 
Indicator 
Output value (billion Yuan) 
PS Vs 
16.5 
Pgis 
5 
PRs 
>0.18 
PRa +PRd’ 
>1.2 
PGNg 
11.8 
Pc 
>1.6 
Po 
Not calculated 
ZlPsum 
>4 
Psum 
about 40($5) 
Table 6 Total of the China’s geospatial industry in 2006