The South Korean government assessed that China has surpassed South Korea in many key scientific and technological fields.

　　Science and Technology Daily, Seoul, March 1 (Reporter Xue Yan) South Korea's Ministry of Science, Technology, Information and Communications released the "2022 Technology Level Assessment Results" on February 29, which showed that China's performance in artificial intelligence, new generation communication technology, network security, and cutting-edge robot manufacturing surpassed South Korea in many key scientific and technological fields.

　　The Ministry of Science, Technology, Information and Communications of South Korea announced the above results at the 57th Operating Committee Meeting of the National Science and Technology Advisory Council held that day.

The assessment is implemented every two years. This time, relevant papers and patents on 136 key technologies in 12 scientific and technological fields in China, the United States, the European Union, Japan and South Korea were analyzed, and the opinions of 1,306 experts were surveyed.

　　From the perspective of 12 fields, South Korea has a slight lead over China in the fields of semiconductors, power batteries and hydrogen energy, but lags behind China in the other 9 fields, especially in the aerospace, marine and quantum fields, the gap is obvious compared with China. .

The results of this evaluation will be distributed to various departments and research institutions and used as basic information for science and technology policy formulation, R&D business planning, etc.

The South Korean government plans to continue to monitor the global technological development level in key fields every two years.

　　The operating committee meeting also jointly reviewed and voted on South Korea’s 2024 National Defense Science and Technology Innovation Implementation Plan.

In order to review the main policies and systems for the development and application of artificial intelligence in the field of defense, the South Korean government plans to promote the establishment of a National Defense Artificial Intelligence Commission chaired by the Undersecretary of Defense.

In order to cultivate outstanding researchers related to the development of cutting-edge weapons systems and national defense strategic technologies, the committee plans to promote the operation of contract disciplines between the National Defense Science Institute and universities and accelerate the construction of research facilities for the development of cutting-edge science and technology such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and energy.