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A long-form series by Marcus L. Endicott mapping China’s deployment of AI-powered “digital humans” across culture, commerce, education, healthcare, governance, and infrastructure — from reanimated funeral avatars and cloned professors to a trillion-dollar smart-tourism market and an avatar-centric 6G network — reading the social rollout as a national method and a rehearsal for humanoid robots.
A daily news-monitoring effort tracking developments across China’s digital human industry — commercial launches, regulatory actions, technical releases, and named entities — to surface trends and feed publication-ready analysis and trend reports.
A daily briefing distilled from the Weibo accounts of the companies in the database — first-party announcements in the companies’ own words, complementing the news monitoring’s press coverage. Days with nothing to report are simply skipped.
The Virtual Beings Group China Timelines were annual news chronicles that tracked China-related developments in the virtual beings field year by year, running across seven yearly installments from 2019 through 2025.