Chungnam to Redesign Growth Engines with AI...Transforming the Entire Industrial Structure

5.89 Trillion Won to Be Invested by 2035
30,000 AI Professionals to Be Trained, 40% AI Adoption Target in Manufacturing
Expansion into Defense, Bio, and Smart Agriculture
"Chungnam to Be a Growth Engine in the AI Era"

Chungnam Province has officially launched its 'AI Grand Transformation' initiative, aiming to redesign industries, administration, and the entire local community around artificial intelligence (AI).

Going beyond a simple digital transformation, the province plans to restructure all sectors—ranging from manufacturing and agriculture to defense and urban management—on an AI foundation.

To this end, on March 18, the province held the 'AI Grand Transformation Strategy Briefing' in the main conference room at the provincial government building, with Governor Kim Taeheum and around 60 members of the AI Special Committee in attendance. At the event, Chungnam announced a medium- to long-term strategy that will invest a total of 5.89 trillion won by 2035.

The province has presented its vision as "All in AI for Human: Innovating Everything in Chungnam with People-Centered AI." It has set five main directions: ▲ AI innovation and growth ecosystem ▲ Securing a super-gap in industrial competitiveness ▲ Realizing smart agriculture, livestock, and fisheries ▲ Accelerating next-generation bioindustry ▲ Innovating urban and public services. Under seven concrete strategies, it will pursue 100 detailed projects.

Chungnam will expand its infrastructure based on the eight AI data centers currently being developed and will foster 30,000 AI professionals.

In addition, the province will create a 250 billion won AI-specialized fund to support the entire industrial ecosystem.

The plan also includes building AI factories, supporting customized smart factories, and establishing demonstration industrial complexes to raise the AI adoption rate among local manufacturing companies to 40%.

Major industries such as semiconductors, displays, and mobility will also be further advanced by integrating AI technologies.

In the agricultural sector, the province aims to increase the adoption of smart farming to over 35% by introducing robotics- and automation-based work agency and platform systems. In the fisheries sector, Chungnam will implement intelligent aquaculture models to reduce mortality rates by over 20%.

For the bioindustry, the province intends to accelerate the development of precision medicine and functional materials by leveraging AI analysis of plant and marine resources, as well as clinical data learning.

In the defense sector, Chungnam aims to attract an AI- and robotics-focused defense industry innovation cluster, establishing a hub for manned-unmanned combined combat system technologies, as well as creating a hub center and cluster to promote the spread of quantum technologies.

The province will support disaster response decision-making with digital twin-based technologies, and by constructing an 'AI City' that integrates and analyzes traffic and infrastructure data, it will proactively address urban challenges.

Additionally, Chungnam will expand AI education for all public officials and residents, and will build an integrated search system that enables unified access to various distributed administrative services.

The province plans to formulate an implementation plan within the first half of this year and reflect it in next year's main budget, thereby accelerating project execution.

Governor Kim Taeheum emphasized, "Chungnam is the core of Korea's advanced manufacturing and a center for the defense, bio, and smart agriculture industries," adding, "AI transformation is not a choice but a mandatory task."

He continued, "Just as Chungnam led Korea's growth in the era of industrialization, we will take the lead in the AI era as well."

Meanwhile, the Chungnam AI Special Committee, launched in November last year, consists of 32 experts from companies, universities, and research institutes and has been at the forefront of strategy development.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.