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Beijing Zhongke Huilian Technology Co., Ltd. (北京中科汇联科技股份有限公司), operating under the brand Huilan at huilan.com, is a Chinese AI enterprise that has built its digital human capabilities on top of a broader intelligent interaction infrastructure, most notably its AiCC unified smart interaction platform and its AiHuman multimodal virtual human system. The company applies real human expression and motion capture technology to produce digital humans intended for deployment in customer-facing and institutional contexts, with a particular emphasis on government services, where its 政务服务数字人一体机 (government services digital human kiosk) solution allows administrators to configure a digital human's appearance, voice, clothing, and background to align with the professional environment of a civic hall, aiming to improve public approachability and institutional trust. The company also developed Xiaowei (小薇), a virtual digital human built on the AiHuman platform, which it exhibited at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. Huilan positions its digital human products within a wider suite that includes intelligent quality inspection, intelligent outbound calling, and smart ticketing, suggesting the company treats digital humans as one channel within an integrated AI-driven service ecosystem rather than as a standalone product category.