Infrastructure, Regulation, and Standards

Presents the governed stack — compute, networks, technical standards, legal architecture, and talent pipelines — that makes large-scale, state-aligned deployment of digital humans possible.

1. The Infrastructure Behind China’s Digital Human Industry - Reads the sector as a layered structure of policy, network, constrained compute, and platform services whose defining feature is convergence rather than any single technology.
2. China’s First Technical Standard for Digital Virtual Humans in Broadcasting - Examines GY/T 411-2024, the country’s first sector-specific specification committing to paper what a broadcasting digital human is and what it must be able to do.
3. The Concentric Barriers of China’s Internet Control - Explains Chinese internet control as a graduated sequence of registrations, licences, and border machinery built by accumulation rather than as a single wall.
4. China’s Layered Legal Architecture for Avatar and AI Intellectual Property - Shows how China has produced the world’s most concrete rules for owning synthetic people through accreted civil law, regulation, and case law rather than any dedicated statute.
5. China’s Orchestrated Push to Build an AI Talent Superpower - Describes the self-reinforcing loop of policy, restructured universities, and corporate investment engineered to secure national control over the supply of AI talent.