In March 2023, a Jilin-based news portal announced that it would join the “Yuanmao” (元卯) digital-human family associated with an AIGC metaverse system and would “fully apply AI digital humans” to its news content production, explicitly linking digital-human embodiment to newsroom throughput and new media-production patterns within Jilin. The referenced platform launch itself was described as occurring at a Beijing event co-hosted by the state news portal and its digital-technology affiliate, framing the underlying system as a web-based metaverse “digital base” that integrates digital humans, content production, and digital scenes, and that includes a rapid digital-human video-generation interface positioned as low-cost and scalable.
August 2023, a provincial commercial bank headquartered in Changchun publicly positioned its first “digital employee” (“Yuanji”) as a new kind of personified, controllable frontline worker built on a combined stack of AI, enterprise data, RPA and large-model techniques, with the stated intent of integrating the avatar tightly into business needs rather than treating it as a standalone marketing character. The bank presented the “digital employee” concept as a way to shift customer interaction from text/voice channels into visible audio–video presentation, signalling a move toward embodied service interfaces as part of routine retail-finance operations in Jilin rather than a campaign-only presence.
In February 2024, Jilin’s culture-and-tourism system introduced two ice-and-snow cultural virtual beings (“Chuyi” and “Xuanlong”) through the release of a promotional short film (“Changbai Under the Snow: Snowy Region’s Encounter”), explicitly combining virtual production techniques with real-world filming of Changbai Mountain winter scenery to produce a hybrid narrative-and-landscape artefact. In this framing, the digital humans functioned simultaneously as synthetic characters and as place-brand carriers—an approach that made the characters legible as long-lived “tourism IP” rather than a limitedrun spokesperson for a single holiday window. Later the same month, a Changchun New District-based metaverse firm demonstrated a production pipeline for “simulated digital humans” and associated virtual anchors, emphasising that its avatars could support continuous livestreaming and real-time response while maintaining high visual fidelity from scanning/modelling through to rendering and interactive control. The company described commercial partnerships spanning more than ten e-commerce platforms and the operation of over one hundred virtual livestream rooms, while also noting collaborations outside Jilin (including work connected to large internet platforms and multinational brands) that were presented as evidence of transferable capability rather than as Jilin-only deployments.
By the end of April 2024 two thousand twenty-four, the provincial bank’s “Yuanji” digital employee had expanded into a multi-channel operating pattern that blended customer-facing explainers with internal-use workflows, illustrating how “digital employee” deployments were being treated as both a service interface and a reusable content-production asset. The bank reported that the digital employee appeared in multiple roles (for example, as a “digital wealth manager” and feature explainer) across mobile-banking and social/video channels, and it claimed measurable effects such as uplift in a wealthproduct conversion rate when the avatar’s explainer was attached, alongside scale indicators including more than one million served customers and cumulative visits exceeding one and a half million across channels by that point. Also in late April, a Beijing-based marketing and digital-content group described its role in building “Chuyi” and “Xuanlong” for Jilin’s culture-and-tourism authorities, presenting the pair as a deliberately extensible virtual-IP asset designed for sustained “worldview” storytelling and ongoing digital-content expansion around the “Changbai Under the Snow” brand. In this vendor account, the Jilin linkage was client- and deployment-driven (place-brand and tourism usage), while production capability and the underlying AI+XR pipeline were positioned as part of the vendor’s broader national portfolio rather than as a Jilin-native build.
In March 2025, Changchun’s medical-insurance authority deployed an embodied AI digital-human livestream service on a short-video platform, explicitly describing it as a continuous, “face-to-face” question-answering channel for policy interpretation and service guidance. The deployment details indicate a governance-and-operations pattern aligned with public-service constraints: the authority constructed a localised knowledge base, integrated and refreshed highfrequency consultation content from existing hotline/customer-service knowledge repositories, and then introduced large-model capability via a named external model partner to expand the digital human’s skills into policy explanation, business consultation and assisted handling; it also committed to iterative improvement based on consultation feedback and paired the avatar with human streamers in a hybrid operational model.
May 2025, Jilin’s culture-and-tourism system transitioned its “Chuyi” and “Xuanlong” virtual beings from promotional narrative assets into a visitor-facing service interface by launching a “smart interactive holographic cabin” experience that was reported as being physically deployed at Jilin Provincial Museum and designed to deliver on-site AI guidance and interaction. This step is significant because it treated digital humans as a front-desk interpretive layer for public cultural infrastructure (museum visitation), not merely as online publicity symbols, and it embedded the characters into a tangible device-format that could be replicated across venues. In the same disclosures, the cultural-tourism system was described as integrating general-purpose large models (specifically citing “Wenxin Yiyan” and “Doubao”) while also developing a Jilin-specific “culture-and-tourism small model” that prioritised local content and datasets when answering travel questions, spanning attractions and seasonal phenomena (for example, Changbai Mountain’s seasonal landscapes and the formation of Jilin rime ice). Official channel reporting also stated an intention—not a confirmed deployment at that time—to extend the same holographic-cabin format to other major Jilin attractions such as Jingyuetan National Forest Park and Museum of the Imperial Palace of Manchukuo, signalling a province-wide “portable digital-human kiosk” distribution strategy for tourism services.
In September 2025, Jilin’s provincial government issued an implementation opinion on accelerating AI innovation development that explicitly instructed an “AI + culture tourism” pathway to upgrade the “Changbai Under the Snow” virtual digital human, enhance its guidance and interaction functions, and develop digital-human application scenarios. This policy text simultaneously linked digital-human work to upstream enablers—high-quality datasets in publishing, film, broadcasting and cultural-heritage domains, plus AIGC creation capabilities such as text creation, video generation and rendering—thereby institutionalising the digital-human thread as a planned component of the province’s broader AI industrial and application roadmap rather than a discretionary marketing tactic.
December 2025, a province-scale broadcast-network and media-technology operator described a newly introduced “Jixiaozhi” digital human as a cross-scenario offering spanning cultural tourism and government-service contexts, with an emphasis on immersive “smart guidance” and a “government digital assistant” capability set. In the same December account, the firm also positioned “digital human actors” alongside AI script generation as production tools intended to accelerate local content creation, and tied this to plans for an AIGC computing centre, suggesting a dual-track strategy: digital humans as front-end service avatars and as back-end production labour within a single operator’s product portfolio.
By late January 2025, the same broadcast-network operator reported that it had achieved local deployment of a major large-model capability, developed a proprietary cultural AI model, and presented a culture-and-tourism digital-human solution at a major Jilin heritage event in Ji'an (the Ji’an Goguryeo World Heritage conference), signalling an attempt to position digital-human systems as part of an integrated “digital Jilin” solution set rather than as isolated pilots. The organisation’s description indicates a mode of scale-building that combines embodied interfaces (digital humans) with provincerelevant data platforms and model-localisation work, aligning with a contractor-like posture towards multiple public-sector and culture-sector domains within Jilin.
[Feb 2026]
2025
May 19, 2025: Jilin Province officially launched its AI-powered “Changbai Under the Snow” cultural-tourism system at the Jilin Provincial Museum, unveiling the Intelligent Interactive Holographic Cabin featuring Chuyi and Xuanlong as fully interactive AI museum guides. The installation integrates hyper-realistic 3D avatars with Baidu Ernie Bot, ByteDance Doubao, and Jilin’s localized tourism knowledge model, enabling natural conversation, artifact narration, and personalized visitor guidance inside the museum environment.
March 18, 2025: Changchun Medical Insurance Bureau launched China’s first 24-hour AI digital-human medical-insurance service, deploying a video-based AI host that provides real-time policy consultation via Douyin and WeChat, marking a national milestone in government digital-human deployment.
2024
February 9, 2024: Chuyi and Xuanlong appeared in a Spring Festival digital greeting, becoming the first ice-and-snow virtual humans to participate in national holiday broadcasting, further embedding them into Jilin’s cultural-media ecosystem.
February 2, 2024: Jilin released its first ice-and-snow cultural digital-human film “Changbai Under the Snow, Snowy Region’s Encounter”, introducing Chuyi and Xuanlong as China’s first ice-and-snow virtual cultural ambassadors. The cinematic VR-hybrid production combined real Changbai Mountain scenery with ultra-realistic 3D avatars, launching the province’s flagship digital-tourism IP.
2023
August 24, 2023: Jilin Bank launched its first digital employee “Yuanji”, deploying a full-stack AI financial avatar across customer service, marketing, and training channels, establishing Jilin as a national leader in enterprise digital-human operations.
March 22, 2023: China Jilin Net joined Xinhua Zhiyun’s “Yuanmou” digital-human family at the Xinhua Metaverse and AIGC Empowerment launch, enabling Jilin’s media system to produce AI-anchored news and immersive digital journalism.