Inner Mongolia is actively integrating AI digital humans across public services, education, media, tourism, and business. Notable developments include the Inner Mongolia Museum’s interactive digital exhibits such as singing and Q&A with digital humans; the debut of “Zhun Xuanxuan,” the region’s first original digital human; and 24/7 AI-powered livestream government service centers in cities like Tongliao. The region has promoted AI digital humans in employment services, museum interactions, and virtual tourism, including the digital human reporter “Meng Xiaoge” on the Hulunbuir grasslands. Universities like Inner Mongolia Normal University are developing digital human academic programs, and companies such as Yili have launched ultra-realistic brand ambassador avatars.
Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia, has widely implemented AI digital humans across employment, education, and industry. The city has hosted over 600 live-streamed recruitment sessions using AI avatars alongside human hosts, offering tens of thousands of job positions and attracting hundreds of thousands of viewers. AI digital humans are being used in resume screening, mock interviews, employment matchmaking, government services, virtual museum guides, and education support. Hohhot has also launched training centers, innovation hubs, and partnerships with tech companies like Lenovo and DeepSeek to support its digital economy.
The Hohhot Integrated Media Center, established in January 2023 as a government-backed public institution, unifies the city’s newspaper, TV station, and online platforms into the “Qing-Orange” system to serve as a centralized hub for multimedia content. Operating on a “one-time collection, multi-output publishing” model, it integrates print, broadcast, online, and cloud-based channels to streamline content planning, production, and distribution. Positioned as both a communication hub and “central kitchen,” it enhances Hohhot’s ability to shape public discourse, provide social services, and support economic and cultural development through a modernized, multi-platform media structure.
On August 15, 2024, in Hohhot, China Unicom launched the HaiNa AI Music Cloud Platform, the country’s first fully domestic cloud-network-integrated music creation environment, which enables AI-driven lyric writing, composing, singing, and performing across music, video, 3D/XR, and metaverse applications; the event also debuted Ge Xiaohu, a grassland-themed AI digital human singer designed with advanced voice and image synthesis to embody Inner Mongolia’s cultural heritage while showcasing the platform’s ability to merge traditional artistry with cutting-edge AI innovation.
Yili Group, officially Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd., is China’s largest dairy producer and a global top-five dairy brand, headquartered in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, where it leverages the region’s livestock and dairy heritage as part of its identity. Since 2020, Yili has made digitalization a core strategy, launching its proprietary large AI model YILI-GPT in 2023 and subsequently creating “Jin Yi”, the first hyper-realistic digital human in China’s dairy industry, followed by a family of avatars such as Dali, Xiaoyi, Yiyi, Xiaoyou, and Xiaoqiao. These digital humans serve as brand ambassadors and consumer engagement tools, appearing in livestreams, virtual exhibitions, and product launches to embody Yili’s “digital-real integration” (phygital) strategy. Developed in-house as part of the company’s push to combine AI with immersive marketing and smart supply chain management, Yili’s digital humans are positioned as symbols of innovation.
In December 2022, Mengniu Dairy, the Inner Mongolia-based dairy giant and rival of Yili, introduced its first virtual employee “Naisi”, a hyper-realistic digital human developed in partnership with Kuaishou’s StreamLake platform, which specializes in advanced audio-video and AI solutions. Naisi was designed as a corporate-facing virtual employee capable of participating in livestreams, interacting with consumers, and representing Mengniu in brand communications, marking a significant step in the company’s digital transformation strategy. Leveraging StreamLake’s full-chain digital human technology, which combines 3D modeling, live interaction, and AI-driven engagement, Naisi embodies Mengniu’s push to modernize its customer outreach.
Huawei Cloud’s MetaStudio technology powered the deployment of digital human avatars at the 14th National Winter Sports Games in Inner Mongolia in February 2024, marking the first-ever integration of such technology in a national-level sports event. The platform was used to animate the Games’ mascots “Mongolian Color Kids” — Anda and Senu — transforming them from static images into interactive, lifelike virtual hosts capable of responding to viewer inquiries and guiding audiences through venue and event details. Impressively, MetaStudio can generate such avatars from just 3–5 minutes of video, using rapid facial feature identification, model matching, fine-tuning, and cloud-rendering acceleration to ensure realism and smooth performance.
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2025
August 1, 2025: By the Chinese People’s University and Inner Mongolia Normal University, the “Cultural Diversity and Digital Humanities” international seminar was held in Hohhot, focusing on digital technology empowering cultural diversity.
July 29-30, 2025: Inner Mongolia Normal University co-hosted an international seminar on “Cultural Diversity and Digital Humanities” in Hohhot.
July 23, 2025: At 10:20 AM, six students from Northeastern University died in an accident at China Gold Group Inner Mongolia Mining Co., Ltd., with digital humans providing multimodal fusion technology for matched tone, actions, and expressions.
June 20, 2025: “Cosmic Speculation” partnered with Inner Mongolia Museum to create immersive exhibitions with dedicated digital human zones.
June 19, 2025: Huatech in Hohhot’s Jinqiao Development Zone launched advanced computer graphics, deep learning, and natural language processing technology for highly realistic digital humans with 24-hour natural dialogue.
June 8, 2025: Hohhot and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region’s live job-streaming base provided free, efficient public recruitment services with 10 live streaming rooms including 6 key industrial cluster rooms, 1 policy interpretation room, and AI digital human live streaming.
May 4, 2025: Magic Mirror Digital Human launched Hohhot weather forecast with AI digital human weather broadcasting on Bilibili.
April 27, 2025: In Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, “digital employee” “Zheng Xiaotong” provided 24-hour online, full-process intelligent services to optimize business experience for enterprises and citizens.
April 22, 2025: Tongliao “Zheng Xiaotong” AI digital human opened the “instant answer era” for government services powered by DeepSeek.
April 17, 2025: Resource Development Group introduced AI digital human technology for innovative safety production training, targeting daily quiz training for various teams to create intelligent teaching solutions.
March 23, 2025: Inner Mongolia Hohhot college graduate job fair provided AI digital human interview simulation and other one-stop employment services.
March 18, 2025: Mengniu’s first virtual employee “Naisi” made its official debut as a digital human.
March 11, 2025: Inner Mongolia leveraged AI to boost employment with innovative “AI digital human 24-hour live job streaming” services launched by Xingan League.
February 25, 2025: Mengcao Ecological Environment Group issued a competitive negotiation announcement for AI digital human system construction project in Hohhot.
February 22, 2025: Hohhot Municipal Disabled Persons’ Federation WeChat official account published “A Letter from DeepSeek to Disabled People in Hohhot” with DeepSeek as the source.
February 15, 2025: Inner Mongolia Hohhot Integrated Media Center announced that the city’s big data management bureau completed DeepSeek-R1 integration.
2024
August 15, 2024: China Unicom launched the HaiNa AI Music Cloud Platform in Hohhot, debuting Ge Xiaohu, their first grassland AI digital human singer developed using advanced image and voice synthesis technologies.
June 17, 2024: Kezuohouqi (under Tongliao City jurisdiction in Inner Mongolia) successfully launched China’s first 24/7 government service livestream room featuring an AI digital host named “Zhengneng Liang Houshi Ban.”
February 19, 2024: Huawei Cloud’s MetaStudio powered digital humans technology at the 14th National Winter Sports Games held in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, marking the first time digital humans technology was integrated into a national sports event.