Belt & Road
To promote the application of the BDS in Arab countries, the China-Arab States BDS/GNSS Center, the first BeiDou overseas center, was officially inaugurated in April 2018, in accordance with a memorandum of understanding signed at the first China-Arab States BeiDou Cooperation Forum held in Shanghai, China in 2017.

Kamal Hassan Ali, assistant secretary general of the Arab League (AL) in charge of economic affairs, receives an interview with Xinhua during the second China-Arab States BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) Cooperation Forum in Tunis, capital of Tunisia, April 1, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]