Minister Kim Yun-duk of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport will visit China to review strategies for building a green hydrogen value chain and supply infrastructure to establish a Saemangeum hydrogen and artificial intelligence (AI) hub. China is the world's largest hydrogen market.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said on the 7th that the Minister will visit hydrogen sites in China from the 8th to the 10th. The ministry noted that the visit is a follow-up measure to consolidation the roughly 9 trillion won Saemangeum investment agreement signed by the government and Hyundai Motor Group in February into practical projects. The Hyundai Motor Group Saemangeum project will invest 9 trillion won by 2030 to build robot manufacturing, an AI data center, a water electrolysis plant, solar power generation, and an AI hydrogen city.
The Minister will check Hydrogen Fuel Cell stack durability and the level of domestic technology, the operational efficiency of large hydrogen charging stations, and the intelligent safety management system at the Beijing Daxing International Hydrogen Energy Demonstration Zone. Based on this, the ministry plans to identify technology and regulatory tasks needed to establish the Saemangeum hydrogen industrial complex.
At the Inner Mongolia green hydrogen production base, the minister will review how wind and solar are linked with water electrolysis facilities and examples of building hydrogen supply chains. The ministry plans to flesh out scenarios for Saemangeum water electrolysis facilities and hydrogen mobility.
Centered on five major hydrogen pilot city clusters, China is expanding large-scale production facilities and is the world's largest hydrogen producer and consumer. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) plans to draw up support measures tailored to Saemangeum's geographic and industrial conditions to lead the creation of a sustainable hydrogen ecosystem and an AI hydrogen city.
Minister Kim Yun-duk said, "It is important to build a stable hydrogen supply infrastructure in Saemangeum and prepare policies that reflect the needs of corporations," adding, "Based on China's leading cases, we will mobilize all available support tools to ensure that investment is executed swiftly."