Source: Hong Kong Government special administrative region
The Under Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry, Ms Lillian Cheong, addressed the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Science and Technology Innovation Forum of the Zhongguancun (ZGC) Forum Annual Conference in Beijing today (March 27) and explored new opportunities for Beijing, Hong Kong and Macao to promote synergistic scientific and technological self-reliance and high-quality industrial development with AI at the core, with government representatives, local and overseas experts, scholars and corporate representatives from different places.
Ms Cheong pointed out that the National 15th Five-Year Plan clearly identified AI as the core engine to drive industrial transformation and cultivate new quality productive forces. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area are both crucial engines of national innovation and development, with complementary advantages and broad collaborative spaces. As the country’s important international innovation and technology (I&T) centre, Hong Kong plays the role of a bridge connecting the Mainland and the world, and is committed to using AI to drive new industrialisation, shaping new quality productive forces as well as assisting the country in building a modernised industrial system and enhancing its voice and influence in global AI development.
Additionally, Ms Cheong visited leading embodied intelligence enterprises including Beijing Inspire Robots Technology Co Ltd, and Galbot Co Ltd, and held discussions with representatives including Galaxea AI, Mech-Mind and Yunji Technology to learn about technological breakthroughs in core robotic components on the Mainland, cutting-edge embodied intelligence, latest development of embodied intelligence basic models and the wide-ranging application scenarios in automated production and smart living of embodied intelligence. She stated that embodied intelligence is an important direction for AI industrialisation. With its strengths in basic research, international recognition, marketised application and standards alignment, Hong Kong is well positioned to help Mainland enterprises develop into an international embodied intelligence accelerator by providing one-stop support in international validation, a showcase window for international technology, thereby expediting their technologies towards the global markets.
Ms Cheong visited the Xiong’an New Area yesterday (March 26) and toured the technology park and development pavilion in the Area. She also met with leaders of the Xiong’an New Area Management Committee, where both sides exchanged views on the development of the Xiong’an New Area and Hong Kong including I&T, regional planning, digital construction and industry planning.