3 October 2026 News

Cultural : During the National Day holiday, multiple locations have densely introduced digital humans into cultural tourism scenarios as navigation and interaction entry points. At the Guangxi Wuzhou “Two Bays Linkage · Heading to the Sea for Strength” Dragon Boat Invitational Race, AI digital human interactive terminals were deployed supporting Mandarin and Cantonese bilingual dialogue, with citizen Lin Zicong stating that conversing with digital humans in Cantonese allows access to nearby shop information; at the opening ceremony of Nanjing’s Yangtze River Road Cultural and Creative Street, holographic projection digital human “Ning Xiaoxuan” made an appearance, bringing new gameplay for “Smart Tour of Yangtze River Road” and linking with online AI digital companion mini-programs supporting AR experiences and filter check-ins; the Jiangsu Province Digital Culture and Smart Tourism Development Center jointly with Huawei terminals launched the “Su Heart Tour” meta-service, with digital human “Susu” able to recommend popular destinations throughout the province and listed on the Xiaoyi Skills Market. Xizang Zirankexue Bowuguan (西藏自然科学博物馆) at its tenth-anniversary “Night of Science” event unveiled exclusive AI digital human IP guide “Dengzhu” making its debut, sharing the stage with robot technology shows and light and shadow performances, serving plateau science education scenarios. Huaqiang North Street in Shenzhen launched three sets of AI naked-eye 3D digital human navigation equipment, supported by technology from Shijue Yuzhou ( Shenzhen ) Shuzi Keji (视觉宇宙(深圳)数字科技有限公司)’s subsidiary Ruyuan AZMAX, shaping digital human “Maker Xiaobei” to tell the “Shenzhen Cycle,” covering Huaqiang Electronics World Branch 2, Huaqiang North Museum and other locations; Shenzhen Joy Harbor launched the “Light·Shadow New Quality Music Concert” during the National Day holiday, with Bao’an cultural and tourism digital human “Bay Treasure” making its performance debut, cross-collaborating with virtual idol boy group and live band. During Shenyang Heping District’s Jiuwu Wenhuacheng (玖伍文化城) ninth-anniversary celebration, the district’s AI agent “Smart Heping” exclusive digital human “He Zhi Xuan” provided on-site 24/7 question-answering service. In Chaozhou, Guangdong, Hanshan Shifanxueyuan (韩山师范学院) faculty and student teams created Chaozhou Fei Yishuzhi Pingtai (潮州非遗数智平台), integrating AI digital human cloud tour narration functionality with embedded bilingual Chinese-English AI digital humans guiding domestic and international visitors on immersive tours of the ancient city, with smart navigation already covering 15 intangible cultural heritage museums and hundreds of intangible cultural heritage workshops. Multiple museums in Zhejiang leverage AI digital human commentary to precisely deliver cultural relics stories to visitors of different ages, Chengdu’s Chunxi Road “First Launch Chunxi·Trend GO Jin Street” event featured AI digital human and motion capture interactive experience zones, Nanjing Xuanwu District’s “Nanjing Yangtze River Road Cultural and Creative Single Ticket Pass” configured with AI digital companion services. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei National Day intangible cultural heritage themed park garden in Beijing’s Phoenix Mountain Scenic Area launched an immersive stilt culture experience zone where visitors can use AR real-time motion capture to generate exclusive “stilt digital alter egos.” The 2026 China International Confucius Culture Festival opened in Qufu, with organizers leveraging AI technology to create a virtual Confucius image that participants can interact with to listen to “Analects” interpretation and traverse sixteen Shandong cities in virtual reality.

Enterprise : Digital human technology is being adopted by more public service and financial institutions to enhance interaction efficiency. In civil aviation, Wulumuqi Tianshan Jichang (乌鲁木齐天山机场) launched a multilingual AI digital human passenger inquiry application, employing a bilingual speech recognition model to improve accuracy in recognizing minority languages; the AI digital human “Xiaolu” from Nanjing Lukou Jichang (南京禄口机场) leverages the airport’s local large model platform and proprietary service knowledge base, supporting over 60 dialects and English, with over 600 standardized Q&A responses achieving 95% accuracy and serving an average of 178 people daily. At the Wuhan Autumn Home Purchasing Festival venue, multiple booths launched VR property viewing and digital human explanation functions, combined with Beike Zhaofang (贝壳找房)’s AI home selection tool, helping homebuyers view floor plans and lighting from 360 degrees. Quanguofulian (全国妇联) introduced the digital human “Lianlian,” reconstructing through AI Liang Qichao’s classic essay “Young China” and continuously releasing content for young users. The Eight-Min Digital Smart Enterprise Public Service Platform led by Fujiansheng Gesi Xiehui (福建省个私协会) provides individual business owners with free lightweight tools including digital human livestreaming, intelligent product selection, and AI content creation, helping traditional merchants upgrade their business models. Hangzhou Yinhang (杭州银行) showcased an intelligent hall interactive experience zone at the fifth Global Digital Trade Expo, adopting the industry’s first-ever tablet technology approach, with digital human assistants accompanying users throughout common transactions such as transfers, remittances, and balance inquiries, driving banking services from counters toward perceivable, interactive “intelligent halls.”

Entertainment : Digital humans and AI virtual avatars continue to penetrate the film, television, variety show, and content creation sectors. At the 33rd Golden Eagle Awards ceremony, Mangguo Tai (芒果台) leveraged AI voice cloning technology to recreate original voice performances of classic characters such as “Tong Xiangyu,” “Xu Sanduo,” and “Song Ying,” enabling a “cross-temporal call” segment where characters called nominated actors including Yan Ni, Jiang Xin, and Wang Baoqiang across time and space, with scripts closely aligned to the actors’ genuine emotions during their original filming, moving several actors to tears on stage. “Soul Land: Princess Dream,” the concluding installment of the “Floating Life Dream” series directed by screenwriter Xiaojixiangtian, utilized image authorization, live-action voice acting, and motion transfer technology from original cast members Yu Yi, Liu Zhiyang, and Xiao Yin to bring the AI digital avatars of the three leads back to the screen with youthful appearances, with modeling precision significantly improved compared to the previous two installments. On short video platforms, AI talent show variety programs exemplified by “12 Star Practice Race” became a popular summer track, with virtual character contestants such as “Cancer” and “Aries” each opening personal accounts for real-time fan interaction, while producers including creator Li Chao explored methods for generating fixed opening and closing frames combined with refined prompt engineering. The 11th Hupu Goddess Tournament for the first time established a virtual track, with Doubao (豆包), DeepSeek and other AI virtual personas competing alongside anime characters such as Medusa and Nezuko, undergoing separate evaluation from the human contestant track. Actor Qi Wei authorized the creation of her official digital alter ego “Han Qingxia” and participated in the production of the AI micro-drama “Doomsday Summer Bloom,” a project that pivoted to AI technology due to the excessive real-person filming costs associated with its apocalyptic theme. Tianjin Jinnan District startup Xingqi Keji (星启科技) has focused on the AI manga-drama track, achieving over 15 million in platform engagement within four months with contemporary-themed works, with the team developing a “triple-constraint generation process” combining fixed opening and closing frames, character positioning maps, and refined prompt engineering to reduce character drift issues. Chengdu Dongxiao Memory at the 2026 Chengdu International Digital Light and Shadow Art Festival exhibited “emowowo×Dongxiao Memory—AI-Driven IP Interactive Community” created by content creator Li Chao, reconstructing scenes including a skate park and Chengdu stage into interactive virtual character spaces powered by AI agents, with each character capable of remembering users and maintaining ongoing dialogue. Multiple sports and social short video reports employed “Huiboxing (慧播星) digital human” technology to generate anchor broadcasting footage, applied to esports reporting from the Asian Games, national soccer team commentary, Fangzhendong retirement interviews, and other news content categories.

Technology : Domestic AI companies continue to advance the industrialization and application of 4D world models and digital twin technologies. Mo Xin Keji (魔芯科技) The mobile application of MoWorld 4D world model “Moxiaochong (摸小宠)” made its debut as a Harmony OS application at the Huawei Mate 90 series launch event, enabling users to upload pet photos to generate interactive 4D digital twins with spatial structure, running through cloud-based Ascend platform model generation coordinated with the Kirin on-device approximately 600-million-parameter MoWorld-Flash model, forming a complete chain of “domestic computing power training—cloud generation—on-device rendering.” Mo Xin Keji (魔芯科技) CEO Chen Tianrun stated that the company is advancing model deployment in film and television entertainment, embodied intelligence training, autonomous driving, and industrial digital twin sectors. Shanghaidaxue Shanghai Meishuxueyuan (上海大学上海美术学院) And Xiangliang Yongxian ( FuturX AI ) (向量涌现(FuturX AI)) formally signed a strategic cooperation agreement during the 2026 World Design Capital Conference, deepening the previously established joint laboratory for artistic digital thinking, and opened to the public for the first time interactive experiences with the “AI Chen Jialeng” digital thinking avatar constructed based on artist Chen Jialeng and the “AI Teacher Jin” digital thinking avatar constructed by Shanghai University of Art and Design Executive Director Jin Jiangbo, with Vector Emergence co-founder Liu Zhengyang delivering a keynote speech on “how digital thinking enables art masters to break through carbon-based boundaries.”

AI Companions : AI avatar services for individual users are accelerating deployment in the Chinese market. ByteDance’s personal assistant project under Doubao (豆包) with the internal testing codename “Spell” is positioned as a “digital shadow” for cross-application scheduling, capable of automatically completing tasks such as booking flights, modifying hotel reservations, synchronizing schedules, and generating meeting minutes, and plans to integrate these capabilities directly into Doubao (豆包)’s dialogue engine rather than launching a separate application. Financial information service platform nashnova provides users with dedicated cloud computers and customizable AI digital avatars; after users connect their concerned assets and research materials, the avatar can continuously track macroeconomic data and corporate financial reports and proactively push interpretation reports, and the platform has also established a research agent network covering macroeconomic, industrial chain, and renowned investment frameworks for users to invoke at any time.

Ethical Contexts : The misuse risks of digital human technology have drawn regulatory and public attention. Renminribao (人民日报) commentary on a China Central Television report pointed out that numerous AI digital humans appearing as “medical workers” and “domain experts” on online platforms are illegally endorsing drugs and health products for eye diseases, white hair care, and other conditions, claiming to have “tested [them] personally” and displaying fabricated “scientific experiment” scenes. Such conduct violates provisions on medical advertisement endorsers in the Advertising Law of the People’s Republic of China and the Internet Advertising Management Measures. The commentary called for generative software to impose restrictions on “doctors selling products” requests, for platforms to conduct upstream interception of content impersonating doctors, and for regulatory authorities to trace responsibility across the entire chain. Shanghaishiwei Wangxin Ban (上海市委网信办) convened a specialized guidance conference on minor online protection, which was attended by 17 key local platforms including bilibili, Xiaohongshu (小红书), Pin Duoduo (拼多多), Ximalaya (喜马拉雅), SOUL, Yuewen Jituan (阅文集团), and miHoYo. The conference explicitly required platforms to focus on preventing new types of harms stemming from AI technology, to be vigilant against emotional manipulation brought about by AI face-swapping and virtual personas, and to advance governance from post-incident handling toward source prevention.