China International Digital Publishing Expo
- Chinese name
- 中国国际数字出版博览会
- Organizer
- Chinese Academy of Press and Publication (中国新闻出版研究院)
- City
- Haikou
- Held
- September
- Cadence
- annual
- 2056402690
China International Digital Publishing Expo is a recurring national-scale trade and policy-oriented showcase for China’s digital publishing sector, used to convene publishers, technology firms, research bodies, and government-linked institutions around “smart publishing” (智能出版) priorities such as platformization, content digitization, rights and data services, and AI-enabled production; in the specific context of digital humans, the expo functions as a high-visibility venue where exhibitors demonstrate “digital human” presenters, guides, and interactive cultural-IP characters as front-end interfaces for reading services, educational content, museum-style interpretation, and brand storytelling, alongside enabling stacks such as speech synthesis, facial/gesture animation, motion-capture pipelines, and multimodal interaction; the 14th edition was held in Haikou, Hainan from September 21–23, 2024 and was accompanied by the release of an annual industry report stating that China’s digital publishing industry scale reached 1.618 trillion yuan in 2023, underscoring how the event frames digital humans as part of a larger productivity and commercialization narrative rather than a standalone novelty.