China Releases Mandatory National Standards for Satellite Positioning Base Station Networks

The State Administration for Market Regulation announced the approval and release of national standards for satellite positioning base station networks to secure China's spatial baseline.

The mandatory national standard, titled “Security Requirements for Satellite Navigation Positioning Base Station Networks,” was approved and released by the market regulation body after proposal and jurisdiction by the Ministry of Natural Resources, according to China Central Television.

The new regulations establish technical requirements across facility, data, and service chains to govern the construction, operation, and management of base station networks while protecting national space-time baselines and surveying and mapping geographic information security, CCTV reported.

The standard sets four core administrative areas, beginning with identification rules and service classifications that define base stations and divide network services into surveying and mapping benchmark services versus other social services for tiered supervision.

Rigorous facility controls prohibit unapproved base stations inside military exclusion zones and military management zones, mandate isolation protection equipment, enforce tiered access permissions for device operations, and require network security level-three protection filing certificates for data processing and management systems.

Data security management enforces tiered controls separating classified data from important data based on sensitivity levels, requires encrypted transmission of raw observation data through wired private networks or commercial cryptographic technology, and applies real-name audits and access controls to important data services.

Service security mandates safety isolation measures for real-time services involving sensitive data, while base station networks offering services to the public must periodically trace measurements back to the national unified surveying benchmark to ensure trustworthy data.

Reported by Li Jingjing, a reporter for China Central Television.

Base station networks providing social services must regularly trace their data back to the national unified surveying baseline, CCTV reported.

The regulatory framework provides technical backing for legal construction and operational management across the sector.