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Beijing Informatization Association (北京信息化协会) is a Beijing-based industry association that, in the digital-human context, shows up primarily as a standards convener and publication body: its “metaverse” working structure is repeatedly referenced as organizing solicitation briefings and calls for participation around group standards for digital-human systems, and it is listed in the drafting and release ecosystem for multiple “T/BIA” standards that define technical requirements and evaluation approaches for digital-human systems, including work on baseline capability requirements and metrics/evaluation methods and a large-model-based digital human system technical requirements standard (T/BIA 30—2025) that is shown as approved for implementation from 1 September 2025, typically alongside major technical stakeholders such as the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology and other participating units, positioning the association less as a character creator and more as a governance-and-interoperability coordinator for how digital-human systems are specified, assessed, and industrialized.
(Beijing Information Industry Association (北京信息产业协会) and Beijing Informatization Association (北京信息化协会) are two distinct Beijing-based non-profit IT bodies whose near-identical English names are easily confused but should not be treated as the same entity, and both have taken on digital-human standards roles upstream of the industry rather than building products. The difference lies in altitude: the Beijing Information Industry Association works at the conceptual and terminological level, defining foundational terms such as digital human, avatar, and metaverse through the national terminology apparatus and convening the sector through its Metaverse Expert Committee, whereas the Beijing Informatization Association works at the technical specification level, issuing concrete T/BIA group standards that prescribe requirements for large-model-driven digital human systems. In short, one governs what the concepts mean and the other governs how the systems should be built.)