26 September 2026 Weibo

Cultural : Quanguofulian (全国妇联) Official matrix accounts (jointly forwarded by local women’s federations including Min Sister and Xiangyang Women’s accounts) launched a digital human named “Lianlian” as a carrier for Mid-Autumn Festival cultural dissemination. Lianlian, in the form of a virtual presenter, accompanied users in reciting the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Jiuling’s renowned work “Gazing at the Moon and Longing Afar,” combining real-world scenes with dreamlike poetic imagery through the thematic column “Though Distant, Our Hearts Remain Connected,” presenting a digitalized interpretation for Mid-Autumn Festival cultural promotion and the “2026 Declaration of Love to the Motherland” themed campaign, showcasing an application scenario where official institutions leverage digital humans to conduct traditional culture recitation and holiday-themed publicity.

Marketing : E-commerce Headlines reported that Taobao (淘宝) held a closed-door conference focused on “AIGC Content E-commerce,” announcing that short dramas, digital humans, and AI creative agents will become the core combination for merchants’ content production, thereby further lowering the content creation threshold for merchants. According to the introduction, the closed-door conference proposed a new-stage positioning of “products as content, content as products,” with Taobao (淘宝) short dramas positioned as “immersive lifestyle scenario consumption content spaces.” Its content creation platform “Guanghe Pingtai (光合平台)” has been upgraded to “Tiancheng Dianshang Neirong Chuangzuo Agent (甜橙电商内容创作Agent),” with functions covering product selection, creative conception, production, distribution, and performance analysis across all links. The initial service targets are apparel merchants, marking Taobao (淘宝)’s concrete layout in introducing digital humans and AI generation technology into the e-commerce content production workflow.