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The State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办公室), commonly abbreviated as SCIO or 国新办, is the central government's principal press and external communications body, operating under the State Council and sharing institutional infrastructure with the Central Committee's Office of External Propaganda under the "one institution, two name plates" (一个机构两块牌子) arrangement that fuses domestic press coordination with international publicity work. Within the digital human ecosystem, the Office functions less as a direct regulator than as the authoritative stage on which national policy, regulatory, and industry developments concerning virtual digital humans (虚拟数字人) are formally announced and framed for Chinese and foreign audiences. Its regular press conferences are the venue at which the Cyberspace Administration of China (国家网信办), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), the Ministry of Science and Technology (科学技术部), the National Radio and Television Administration (国家广播电视总局), and other agencies introduce measures bearing on synthetic media, generative artificial intelligence, and digital human services, including the briefings surrounding the April 3, 2026 CAC draft Measures for the Administration of Digital Virtual Human Information Services (数字虚拟人信息服务管理办法) and the April 29, 2026 conference introducing the 2026 China Network Civilization Conference (2026年中国网络文明大会), at which officials addressed digital human governance, AI-generated content labeling, and the risks posed by digital humans and disinformation. SCIO press conferences are also the channel through which provincial authorities unveil flagship digital human deployments, with Guangxi presenting its "Liu Sanjie" (刘三姐) AI digital human as part of regional AI-empowered cultural tourism and public science communication initiatives, and through which State Council documents touching on digital humans, including the 2025 Opinions of the State Council on the In-Depth Implementation of the "AI Plus" Action (国务院关于深入实施"人工智能+"行动的意见) with its provisions on a public security governance system encompassing natural persons, digital humans, and intelligent robots, are released to the press. The Office has also engaged the technology reflexively, with the December 2024 SCIO New Year reception cycle featuring public discussion by a Ministry of Science and Technology spokesperson of how virtual digital humans would soon become a routine presence in online news distribution while remaining incapable of fundamentally replacing human news spokespeople, an early indication that SCIO views avatar-mediated communication as a near-term operational reality for Chinese state media. The Office's official portal at scio.gov.cn serves as the authoritative archive for these announcements and accompanying documentation, making SCIO a central institutional node that connects top-level policy production, ministerial regulatory output, and the curated information environment through which China's digital human industry is officially presented to domestic and foreign publics.