GIS technology originated in the 1960s. In 1960, the Canadian surveyor R.F. Tomlinson proposed to transform maps into digital maps. In 1963, he also proposed the term GIS and established the world's first GIS - Canadian GIS. Then GIS developed rapidly in the world. China's GIS industry started relatively late. It was only in the 1980s that it entered the pilot period and began the development of thematic test software. In the 1990s, with the development of coastal economic development zones, the paid use of land and the introduction of foreign capital, GIS product services were needed to accelerate the comprehensive development of GIS industry in China and gradually enter the industrialization stage.

The domestic GIS industry chain is relatively mature. Upstream manufacturers carry out data collection and processing, midstream manufacturers carry out the development and sales of GIS basic software platform, and downstream manufacturers carry out value-added development for various types of GIS. Judging from the current situation in China, the competition pattern of equipment suppliers in the upstream of the industry is relatively stable. In terms of data supply, there are thousands of data suppliers scattered, as well as downstream application industries. However, the basic software platform in the midstream needs good R&D capabilities due to its high technical requirements, resulting in high technical barriers. So what are the six most powerful enterprises in China's GIS industry? Today, Xiaobian will introduce it to you for your reference and study as an industry model.

Sixth: Southern Surveying and Mapping Technology Co., Ltd

Founded in Guangzhou, Southern Surveying and Mapping is a surveying and mapping geographic information industry group integrating research and development, manufacturing, sales and technical services. The business scope covers surveying and mapping equipment, satellite navigation and positioning, UAV aerial survey, laser radar survey system, precision survey system, ocean survey system, precision monitoring and precise location service, data engineering, geographic information software system and smart city application, and is committed to the promotion of industrial informatization and spatial geographic information application value. Southern Surveying and Mapping focuses on the surveying and mapping geographic information industry, takes the revitalization of the national industry as its own responsibility, insists on independent innovation, and has successively realized the localization of a series of surveying and mapping instruments, such as the range finder, electronic theodolite, total station, GNSS, and has achieved a series of technical achievements with independent intellectual property rights, and has become the founder and leader of China's electronic surveying and mapping instruments, and the leader of China's high-precision satellite navigation industry, it is also the leader of China's geographic information software and data system.

According to the expert appraisal organized by the former National Bureau of Surveying and Mapping Geographic Information, the products and comprehensive technology of Southern Surveying and Mapping have reached the world's advanced level and become one of the top four in the industry. At present, the production and sales of the Southern Surveying and Mapping Electronic Theodolite, total Station and RTK are among the top in the world. The number of stations built by the Beidou Ground Enhancement System (CORS) is leading in the country. The market share of mapping software is more than 90%. It has a professional team of UAV aerial survey and laser data acquisition and processing with considerable scale and strength in China. The Group now has 30 provincial branches, more than 100 prefecture-level branches, and 9 overseas sales and service institutions all over the country. It also has many subsidiaries that focus on satellite navigation and positioning, high-speed railway precision survey, unmanned aerial survey, laser radar survey, precise location service, geographic information software system, and has a global large-scale R&D and manufacturing base of surveying and mapping equipment in Beijing, Wuhan, Changzhou and Guangzhou, the products are exported to more than 100 countries and regions around the world.

Fifth: Zhengyuan Geographic Information Group Co., Ltd

Zhengyuan Geo-information Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zhengyuan Geo-information") is a second-level state-owned large geographic information enterprise controlled and managed by the Central Enterprise China Metallurgical Geology Administration, and is a high-tech enterprise that has carried out research, development and application of surveying and mapping geographic information technology earlier in China. Founded in March 1999, Zhengyuan Dixin has been committed to the development and utilization of spatial geographic information and the investment, construction, operation and service of digital cities and smart cities for a long time. It has cultivated and formed core businesses such as basic geographic information application, underground space informatization, municipal facility security and smart cities, and has the core competitiveness of basic geographic information system integration and application services, and the construction and operation services of above-ground and underground all-space smart cities.

Zhengyuan Dixin is one of the first Class A surveying and mapping qualified units in China. It has a number of high-level qualifications covering the acquisition of above-ground and underground full-space data, software development, and information system integration. It has more than 3000 employees and thousands of high-end scientific and technological equipment. The company has a business footprint all over the country, and its service fields cover urban construction, planning, land, railway, transportation, water conservancy, environmental protection, agriculture, forestry, marine and other industries. It has provided data guarantee for the 60th anniversary parade of the National Day, the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, and the Davos Forum in Tianjin. It has successively won the titles of National Excellent Unit of Surveying and Mapping Quality. Top 10 Unit of China's Geographic Information Industry, and Top 100 Enterprise of China's Geographic Information Industry, Zhengyuan has become a well-known brand in the domestic industry. Over the years, Zhengyuan Dixin has been innovating, relying on the technical advantages of "land, sea and space" four-in-one geospatial spatiotemporal data construction, forging a data-driven geographic information+concept and joint solutions, and boosting the development of geographic information industry and new smart cities. The company will continue to adhere to "openness, inclusiveness, cooperation and development", and strive to build a leading enterprise in China's geographic information industry and a comprehensive operation service provider for the construction of new smart cities.

Fourth: Zhongdi Digital Group

Zhongdi Digital Group is a large software group specialized in GIS research, development, application and service. Its core enterprises include wholly-owned companies such as Wuhan Zhongdi, Beijing Zhongdi, Shenzhen Zhongdi, Xinjiang Zhongdi and other branches such as Jinan and Kunming. Wuhan Zhongdi is a key software enterprise and one of the top 100 software enterprises with independent innovation. Adhering to the corporate purpose of "creating a new environment for digital survival", relying on the University of Geosciences of China and taking the Chinese GIS expert Professor Wu Xincai as the technical core, CGI has always adhered to the development path of "independent innovation" and "production, research and research", and has been engaged in the research and application of GIS since the late 1980s, It has achieved a historical leap over and over again in the development of GIS in China: from the successful development of "a set of color map editing and publishing system - MapCAD" to the development of "a geographic information system with completely independent intellectual property rights - MapGIS", MapGIS has been ranked in the national GIS software evaluation for ten consecutive years.

With the wisdom of more than 600 employees, China Digital has accumulated more than 30000 users in China, with an installed capacity of more than 100000 sets, with more than 80% of China's digital land, digital municipal, digital communications, digital mining and other markets, and completed more than 1000 geospatial information projects with 20 years of experience in geospatial information research, development, application and service. At present, more than 100 software products have been successfully developed and successfully applied, which have been widely used in the fields of national economy, social construction and national defense, and have begun to enter the international market in an all-round way. In recent years, the new digital communication system, the government spatial geographic information sharing service platform, the real estate GIS platform, the tax management system, the e-government platform, the data center, the municipal integration system, and the popular application products are becoming the mainstream software of the digital city construction.

Third: Beijing Satellite New Technology Co., Ltd

Beijing Siwei Tuxin Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Siwei Tuxin, stock code of Shenzhen Stock Exchange: 002405) is China's leading provider of digital map content. Internet of Vehicles and dynamic traffic information services, and business intelligence solutions related to geographical location. It is always committed to providing professional and high-quality geographic information products and services to global customers. After more than ten years of development, the company has become a large group joint-stock enterprise with eight wholly-owned, eight holding companies and six participating companies. As the fourth largest digital map provider in the world and the largest digital map provider in China, the company's products and services fully meet the needs of car navigation, consumer electronic navigation, the Internet and mobile Internet, government and enterprise applications and other industries. In the global market, the digital map, dynamic traffic information and Internet of Vehicles services of the new brand of the four-way map have been widely recognized by many customers and highly affirmed by the industry.

In the field of digital maps, the company has been focusing on the integration and release of geographic information data in the era of big data. By focusing on the research and development of geographic information data, the company has built a geographic information data cloud platform, and continues to deeply explore the commercial value behind the data. The new four-dimensional digital map has been piloting China's front-mounted vehicle navigation market for many consecutive years, and has received orders from mainstream car manufacturers such as BMW, Volkswagen, Benz, GM, Volvo, Ford, SAIC, Toyota, Nissan, Hyundai, Peugeot, etc; And through the win-win business model, it has occupied more than 50% of the market share in the consumer electronics, internet and mobile internet markets for many years. It has gathered thousands of website maps and many mobile map brands such as Baidu Map, Sogou Map, Nokia Map, Tuba Map, Tiger Map, Navigation Dog, Sky Map, etc., and more than 150 million users access the company's map data through various carriers every day.

As the third map manufacturer in the world and the first map manufacturer in China to pass the TS16949 (International Automobile Industry Quality Management System) certification, it has taken the lead in launching pedestrian navigation map products in China, and has achieved technical breakthroughs and product-based applications in new areas such as voice navigation, high-precision navigation, indoor navigation, three-dimensional navigation, etc. In 2012, it became the only company in the world to master the NDS standard format compilation technology and provide NDS navigation map data, and will occupy a favorable position in the future cooperation with international mainstream car manufacturers.

Second: Beijing Chaotu Software Co., Ltd

Beijing Chaotu Software Co., Ltd. is the third largest geographic information system (GIS) software manufacturer in the world and the largest in Asia. It is mainly engaged in the research and development of GIS related software technology and application services. The parent company's hypergraph software and its hypergraph information, hypergraph international, Shanghai Nankang, Nanjing Guotu, Beijing Antu, Shanghai Shuhui and other first-level (wholly-owned) subsidiaries, as well as the second-level (holding) subsidiaries of Tuhui and Japan's hypergraph, as well as branches and offices throughout the country, constitute the hypergraph group. The Group is headquartered in Beijing with a registered capital of 4495373.67 million yuan. Chaotu has more than 3000 formal employees, with an annual operating income of more than 1.7 billion yuan in 2019. Chaotu has three business segments: basic software, application software, and cloud services, and insists on building an ecological partnership system. Through more than 1000 ecological partners, it has fully empowered the informatization of governments, enterprises and institutions in dozens of industries. Chaotu has always attached importance to technological innovation. In 2019, the R&D investment exceeded 250 million, accounting for 14.58% of the annual operating revenue.

Since its establishment in 1997, through continuous innovation and unique lean and agile research and development management system, SuperMap has developed a large GIS basic software series for application development, 2D and 3D mapping and visualization, and decision analysis in various industries, including cloud GIS server, edge GIS server, end GIS, online GIS platform and other software products. The latest version of SuperMap GIS 10i (2020) was released in September 2020. In SuperMap GIS 10i (2020), the super map software has further improved the five technical systems of GIS basic software (BitDC), namely big data GIS, artificial intelligence GIS, new generation 3D GIS, distributed GIS and cross-platform GIS technology system, enriched and innovated GIS theory and technology, and endowed more powerful geographical intelligence for the informatization of various industries.

First: Beijing Beidou Xingtong Navigation Technology Co., Ltd

Beijing Beidou Xingtong Navigation Technology Co., Ltd. is a professional company engaged in satellite navigation and positioning business, established in 2000 with the successful launch of China's Beidou navigation and positioning satellite, and determined to promote the industrialization of China's satellite navigation and positioning as its own responsibility. The main business of the company is location-based information system application, satellite navigation and positioning product supply and location-based operation services. It integrates research and development, production and sales, and serves military and civilian applications such as navigation and positioning, command and control, precision measurement, and target monitoring. As one of the earliest professional companies engaged in satellite navigation and positioning business in China, Beidou Xingtong is committed to providing users with solutions based on satellite navigation and positioning technology. In the field of satellite navigation and positioning product business, the company provides BDNAV GNSS series boards Beidou Group user center series equipment and other products.

In the field of location-based information system application business, the company deeply integrates satellite navigation and positioning, communications, geographic information and other resources with the operation process of the application industry through integrated innovation to improve the production efficiency of industry users and reduce the operation cost; Location-based operation service business is another important strategic direction of the development of Beidou. The company has built a Beidou operation service network with the Beidou system as the core and integrating the mobile communication system and the Internet to provide navigation and positioning, digital message communication services and location-based value-added information services for registered users. The three businesses of Beidou Xingtong complement and promote each other, forming a business development model of "product+system application+operation service", and also creating a loud satellite positioning brand of "Beidou Xingtong".