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The China Association of Cultural Industries (中国文化产业协会), primarily through its Cultural Metaverse Professional Committee (文化元宇宙专业委员会), treats digital humans as a key interface for building a cultural metaverse that connects the physical and virtual worlds, a view set out in its jointly produced reports including the China Cultural Metaverse White Paper (中国文化元宇宙白皮书) and the Cultural Metaverse AIGC Development Research Report (中国文化元宇宙AIGC发展研究报告), released around mid-2023 with partners such as Tongji University and Tsinghua University. These reports frame digital humans as evolving across four tiers, moving from mere digital shells or puppets toward emotionally intelligent, personality-driven companions, with the fastest progress coming in three-dimensional reconstruction (such as light-array scanning) and intelligent generation (text-to-video and text-to-image). The association actively promotes deployment of digital humans in cultural heritage, tourism, and public cultural services, citing flagship cases such as the National Museum of China's first virtual digital human employee Ai Wenwen (艾雯雯), developed with Tencent for curation and guided interpretation, and regional cultural-IP digital humans like Huozhou, Shanxi's Lantern Shadow Digital Human (灯影数智人). Across its forums, white papers, and exhibitions through 2024 to 2026, the group consistently positions digital humans as both a marketing tool for livestreaming commerce and a transformative force turning traditional film and media into immersive, experiential cultural tourism.