Patrick Li: The SAR government is actively engaging in the integration of artificial intelligence and promoting the development of strategic future industries such as robotics and other skill-based industries.

Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu stated during the Body Intelligence Industry Summit that embodied intelligence has become a key engine driving industrial upgrading and fostering new productive forces. The forward-looking layout of the national 15th Five-Year Plan supports embodied intelligence as a new economic growth point. He mentioned that the government actively aligns with national strategies and the AI+ action plan, focusing on promoting the development of strategic future industries such as embodied intelligence. Hong Kong has a group of world-renowned experts and scholars in the AI and Siasun Robot & Automation field, with academic research levels ranking at the forefront globally. The government also supports local university research centers and enterprises through the Innovation and Technology Fund to conduct thematic research related to embodied intelligence. Specifically, the government's AIR@InnoHK has funded 16 laboratories focusing on AI and Siasun Robot & Automation, with a focus on applying AI-driven Siasun Robot & Automation technology to various industries including healthcare, logistics, and smart technology. Cyberport also supports around 120 companies in designing humanoid Siasun Robot & Automation, unmanned driving, drones, smart wearable devices, and more. He mentioned that Hong Kong's compact urban space provides an ideal experimental and application scenario for embodied intelligence, with rich and challenging application space in areas such as service robotics, healthcare, nursing applications, and intelligent manufacturing. He also mentioned that the government has established an AI+ and Industrial Development Strategy Committee, focusing on areas such as life and health, and embodied intelligence to accelerate industrial transformation driven by AI and align with the national AI+ action plan. The government's wholly-owned AI research and development institute will be operational in the second half of the year, with the goal of promoting AI upstream research and development, midstream results transformation, and open application scenarios, building AI technology solutions to promote solutions including embodied intelligence, and accelerating commercialization and industrial layout in response to industry demand. In terms of infrastructure, the government is actively promoting the construction of various industrial parks in the northern metropolis area to form a complete industrial ecosystem and achieve coordinated development among the upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors to help drive the future development of the embodied intelligence industry.