China Unicom
- Chinese name
- 中国联通
- Pinyin
- Registered name
- 中国联合网络通信集团有限公司
- Unified Social Credit Code
91110000MA001HYK9Xregistered in Beijing 北京- U.S. restrictions
Telecom networks and the call itself
China Unicom (中国联合网络通信集团有限公司) is the state-owned parent of the China Unicom group, owned by SASAC. Its listed companies are China United Network Communications Limited (中国联合网络通信股份有限公司), traded in Shanghai (600050), and China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited, traded in Hong Kong (0762); the group’s telecom services are run by China United Network Communications Corporation (中国联合网络通信有限公司) through provincial branches.
Its own digital-human work is in patents. It is the applicant on digital-human patents, among them methods for displaying a customer-service avatar (CN118170287A), generating a digital human (CN119579741A), controlling a virtual human’s face (CN114255307A) and adjusting a digital human’s expressions (CN121564777A), and, jointly with Unicom Digital Technology (联通数字科技有限公司) and Unicom Data Intelligence (联通数据智能有限公司), driving a digital human’s body movements (CN121662061A). The group has used the ultra-realistic digital human Anlish (安未希) as a digital employee and spokesperson since 2021, including in a video for its results announcement.
Other China Unicom digital-human work is done by group companies with their own records: China United Network Communications Corporation, whose Zhejiang branch fields the customer-service digital human Mengxiao AI (萌小AI); Unicom Online, with the Unicom digital-human product line; its subsidiary Unicom Wo Music, which runs video ringback tones and created Anlish; and Unicom Digital Technology, which built the guided-tour digital human for the National Natural History Museum of China.