China’s Fengyun meteorological satellite family is providing services for users in 121 countries and regions around the world, including 85 countries and regions along the routes of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), said the China Meteorological Administration (CMA).

More than 1,400 people in 92 countries and regions in the world have received training in technologies related to the meteorological satellite family, according to the CMA.

Providing users at home and abroad with free access to data in real time, the Fengyun satellites have played an important role in weather forecast, natural disaster response, and ecological and environmental governance in relevant countries and regions as well as the world at large.

Data released by the CMA on Dec. 13 showed that since it was put into operation in January 2019, China’s Fengyun-2H meteorological satellite, which is dubbed “the Belt and Road satellite”, has provided a total of 55,000 cloud images, with 28 full-disk cloud images and 20 images of clouds in the northern hemisphere on a daily basis.

They have been widely used in weather monitoring and forecasting, disaster warning, agricultural production, scientific research and other fields in countries and regions along the routes of the BRI.