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Beijing Zhongke Jincai Technology Co., Ltd. (北京中科金财科技股份有限公司), listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange under the ticker 002657, is a fintech-focused technology company founded in December 2003 that has progressively extended its capabilities into digital human development. The company's core business has long centered on comprehensive technology services for China's financial sector, counting the People's Bank of China, the CBIRC, the CSRC, SWIFT, and hundreds of commercial banks among its clients. Within this vertical, digital humans have emerged as a practical deployment layer: the company won a contract to supply Tianjin Bank's intelligent customer service platform with digital human and AI assistant functionality, and has pursued similar deployments across the banking sector. In 2023 it developed multimodal hyper-realistic digital humans alongside 2D and 2.5D variants, a content production engine, and metaverse scene development tools, positioning the technology within its broader AI and industry internet platform. The company is also a certified service provider for Alibaba Cloud's public cloud AI large model framework, and in December 2024 it filed a patent for a large language model-driven digital human agent live-streaming recommendation system (publication number CN119939017A), signaling an expansion from customer service avatars toward LLM-powered interactive digital human applications in financial and commerce contexts.