Pioneer to sell car-navigation in China

Pioneer Corp. will start selling its car-navigation system that also plays music and movies in China from March.

The Japanese electronics company said that the GPS system, which comes with a touch-sensitive display and voice-activated feature, will offer maps of 20 provinces and two autonomous regions for 19,800 yuan (US$ 2,460).

The DVD-based navigator will also play CDs up to 480 minutes long and DVDs, which allows back-seat passengers to watch movies with a separately sold monitor.

Pioneer said it expected sales of its GPS system to rise as automobile sales in China also grow by more than a projected 10 million units by 2014.

The company first introduced car-navigation in Japan in 1990, followed by Europe and North America in 1999.