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Central University for Nationalities (Central Minzu University, 中央民族大学) is a Beijing-based university that, in the digital-human context, is visible both as a source of domain expertise and as a campus adopter of AI-facing services: in November 2024 its news channels highlighted a “real-person expert” mental-health digital human released in Ningbo that was explicitly modeled on an MUC alumnus (Li Xiaoyun, class of 1984, Philosophy) and jointly developed with local health authorities and technical training support from Ant Group’s healthcare unit, framing MUC as an upstream contributor of recognized human expertise that can be productized into a digital human for public service delivery. In parallel, MUC has publicized “smart orientation” (迎新) upgrades that emphasize campus-scale deployment of AI, identity verification, and real-time data systems for student services—an operational foundation that commonly underpins digital-human-style front ends such as interactive guides and service avatars, even when the university’s write-up focuses on the broader smart-campus stack rather than a single named avatar. On the academic and student innovation side, MUC’s Education School has promoted applied “education digital human” work through national competition results, including a May 2025 award for a “Dream of the Red Chamber” digital-human teaching platform positioned as an AI+education practice that uses digital-human techniques to reenact scenes and support literature instruction, indicating an institutional pathway from coursework and interdisciplinary collaboration to demonstrable digital-human prototypes.