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Baotong Technology (宝通科技), listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (stock code: 300031) and headquartered in Wuxi, was founded in 2000 and has positioned itself as a digital human developer under the guiding concept of "technology delivering a better life." The company claims a world-first in developing 1:1 naked-eye AI interactive digital human technology — enabling users to experience life-sized virtual characters without wearable devices — which it markets through its flagship product BOTON SPACE 1, developed in collaboration with Yiqianxiang (一隅千象) and HoloVision (哈视奇). Its digital human portfolio includes named employee characters Tong (彤) and Bo (博), as well as a bare-eye 3D MR spatial digital human system and a digital twin smart mine system. The company has entered commercial deployments with partners including China Mobile's Hangzhou branch, for which it provided a virtual digital human service, and has signed investment and cooperation agreements with Nanjing Badianba Digital Company (南京八点八数字公司). Baotong is building out a commercialization matrix spanning digital humans and XR virtual digital scenes, and as of January 2026 received an "AI Application" concept classification on the Chinese securities market, reflecting growing investor attention to its AI and metaverse-oriented product lines.