2025 Metaverse Typical Cases

Every entry below was checked against the shortlist the Ministry of Culture and Tourism publishes itself (入围名单, PDF), on 22 August 2026. 424 Chinese strings were compared and 420 matched the ministry’s own characters exactly; the rest were corrected against it, and the corrections are listed at the foot of this page. Read that file rather than this one where the two ever disagree.

The 2025 Metaverse Typical Cases (2025年元宇宙典型案例) is a curated national catalog of 193 exemplary metaverse projects formally announced on May 6, 2026, as the deliverable of a joint selection program run by four Chinese government departments — the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the National Radio and Television Administration — which solicited, evaluated, and selected entries across four categories (typical cases, product cases, park cases, and standard cases) to showcase how the metaverse is being operationalized in real industrial scenarios; within this catalog, digital humans emerge as one of the core enabling technologies, with featured implementations spanning front-desk and customer-service avatars powered by speech recognition, natural language processing, and deep learning, sign-language AI systems advancing accessibility, IP-driven virtual personas and digital doppelgängers for cultural and entertainment use, photorealistic livestreaming hosts for e-commerce, and AI tutoring assistants for education, while Beijing, Shandong, Jiangsu, Sichuan, and Chengdu led regional contributions, collectively signaling China’s official endorsement of digital humans as a foundational pillar of the metaverse driving AIGC, digital twin integration, immersive commerce, intelligent service delivery, cultural IP development, and inclusive accessibility applications throughout 2025.

Here is the full 193-entry list, organized by the four official sections of the announcement (工信厅联科函〔2026〕164号 dated 15 April 2026).

I. Typical Digital Human Cases (一、典型数字人案例)

II. Typical Product Cases (二、典型产品案例)

(1) Interactive Terminals (交互终端)

(2) Technical Tools (技术工具)

(3) Industry Applications (行业应用)

III. Typical Park Cases (三、典型园区案例)

IV. Typical Standard Cases (四、典型标准案例)

Corrections made against the ministry file, 22 August 2026

This page was generated before anyone had read the ministry’s own shortlist. Of the 424 Chinese names and case titles on it, 420 matched exactly. Fourteen did not, and one entry that appeared not to match turned out to be correct — its case name is split across a page break in the PDF, which is worth knowing before anyone re-runs this check.

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车小叙车小赵CRRC digital employee
开开开河开开Henan Open University virtual teacher
临小蝉(蛩蝉)临小婵(貂蝉)Baidu’s Lintao figure — Diaochan, not a cicada
装装裴裴Mashang Consumer Finance elder-care companion
希妮希娅Shiyou Pota 4.0
消费级全息消费级体全息Nika Optics waveguide module
嘉宝智慧涛嘉宝智慧湾Shanghai CIM digital twin
广州励弘文创业服务广州励弘文创创业服务Guangzhou park operator
北京生数科技有限公司北京哇嘶嗒科技有限公司Tripo is VAST’s, not Shengshu’s
清岛福兴清峦福兴not a place name; the entry also has three declaring units, of which this page named one
圆测信息科技园测信息科技Suzhou VR product
图蒙(上海)图萌(上海)digital teacher “Xiaozhao”
篆字信任(北京)寰宇信任(北京)metaverse 3D asset circulation platform
数奇云(杭州)数峦云(杭州)Tongling electrolysis workshop digital twin

The Tripo attribution is the one that mattered: a real 3D-model product credited to the wrong real company. The rest are single characters, and single characters are how a name stops resolving — 内蒙古徽光网络科技有限公司, a name invented on this page, was the same class of error with no company behind it at all.