Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone

Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone (北京经济技术开发区), commonly known as Beijing Yizhuang (北京亦庄), is a state-level development zone in the southeastern part of Beijing that has emerged as a significant node in China's digital human and broader intelligent technology ecosystem. The zone is widely recognized for its robotics infrastructure — including hosting the World Robot Conference and serving as the site of the world's first humanoid robot half-marathon — and this hardware-oriented identity extends into the digital human space, where resident enterprises are deploying virtual beings across commercial and public applications. Jisi Technology (集思科技), a zone-based company, launched a second-generation digital human product for live-stream e-commerce marketed under the concept of "real-time avatar," framing the advancement as a transition from functional usability to experience-driven interaction characterized by visual naturalism, intelligent communication, and collaborative content generation. The zone has also been represented in Beijing's municipal skills competition framework under the digital economy track, which showcased over forty digital technology products including digital humans, AI interview systems, intelligent digitization platforms, 3D virtual shooting, and realistic costume replication technology. Government communications from the zone have utilized digital human interfaces for policy explanation, including materials related to community eldercare services, indicating adoption of virtual beings in civic and administrative contexts alongside commercial deployments. 

On July 2, 2025, the "Moshu World" (模数世界) AI Ecosystem Conference was held in Beijing Yizhuang under the guidance of the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone's Information Technology Industry Bureau, co-hosted by the Beijing AI Scene Application Innovation Institute and Jisi Technology (集思科技). The centerpiece of the event was Jisi Technology's launch of its "Real-Time Avatar" (实时替身) second-generation digital human live-streaming product, which advances e-commerce digital humans from functional 1.0 usability to an experience-driven 2.0 stage characterized by visual naturalism, intelligent communication, and emotionally responsive consumer interaction powered by multimodal large models and multi-agent architecture. Industry speakers from Fosun Group, 37Partners, InnoBaker, and Kuncheng Group presented AI retail case studies spanning NBA IP monetization, fashion design acceleration, and intelligent CRM, while roundtable discussion addressed the divergence between Chinese and overseas markets on AI deployment priorities. The zone also introduced its 2025 plan for building an "All-Domain AI City," offering compute, model, and data vouchers to reduce enterprise costs as part of a thirty-point action plan targeting a hundred-billion-yuan AI industrial cluster, with the Moshu World hub already hosting 29 enterprises on-site across 500,000 square meters of office space in the National Information Technology Application Innovation Park. 

(bda.gov.cn is the official website of the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, though like many Chinese government websites it is inaccessible from outside China due to network restrictions.)