Ansan City Accelerates 'Physical AI'-Based Industrial Transformation... Establishes Basic Plan for Fostering the Artificial Intelligence Industry

Physical AI-Based Industrial Transformation
Focusing on AI Talent Development, Corporate Support
and Governance Establishment

Ansan City in Gyeonggi Province announced on May 18 that it has established the “Ansan City Basic Plan for Fostering the Artificial Intelligence Industry” and will begin full-scale efforts to create an AI-based industrial ecosystem to enhance the future competitiveness of the local industry.

View of Ansan City Hall. Provided by Ansan City

Since last year, the city has been laying the groundwork to foster the artificial intelligence industry. First, it formed an AI consultative body comprising nine local industry–academia–research institutions, including Hanyang University, Gyeonggi Technopark, and the Gyeonggi Regional Headquarters of Korea Industrial Complex Corporation. Through a technology support agreement for AI, the city has established a foundation for research and development as well as industrial application.

Additionally, to establish policy directions reflecting the local industrial structure and corporate demand, the city promoted a research project titled “Ansan City AI Transformation Strategy” in collaboration with the ERICA Industry–Academia Cooperation Group at Hanyang University.

The research project comprehensively analyzed the local manufacturing base, characteristics of industrial complexes, companies’ digital transformation needs, and the potential for AI technology utilization to derive a strategy for fostering the Ansan-style AI industry.

This basic plan focuses on advancing the local industry by linking the city’s manufacturing base and industrial infrastructure with AI technology. In particular, it sets the main direction as a transition to a “Physical AI”-centered industrial transformation that goes beyond simply introducing AI technology, connecting it to innovation in manufacturing, robotics, automation, and data-driven industries.

Based on this basic plan, Ansan City will establish detailed implementation plans and promote related projects step by step by linking with policy projects of the central government and Gyeonggi Province. The city will particularly focus its administrative efforts on accelerating the AI transformation of manufacturing, centered on the Banwol and Sihwa National Industrial Complexes, and on strengthening the competitiveness of local companies and building a foundation for new future industries.

Heo Nam-seok, Acting Mayor (Vice Mayor) of Ansan, stated, “This basic plan marks the starting point for Ansan City to transform from a manufacturing-centered industrial city into an AI-based future industrial city. We will closely cooperate with companies, universities, and research institutions to build an Ansan-style AI industrial ecosystem and achieve tangible results that citizens and businesses can experience.”

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