Ministry of Science and Technology

The Ministry of Science and Technology (中华人民共和国科学技术部) is China’s central government ministry that steers national science-and-technology priorities and uses a mix of policy coordination, program design, and convening power to shape how emerging AI applications are funded, framed, and legitimized; in the specific context of digital humans, it is typically visible not as a system builder but as an agenda setter and sponsor that links digital-human work to national AI innovation narratives, for example through its official reporting on AI-focused conferences that explicitly include sessions on digital humans and “embodied intelligence” and through high-profile innovation forums where digital-human presenters are used to communicate cross-regional innovation成果 and demand lists, while its programmatic role also appears indirectly in funding and call documents where “digital human” is treated as an application target inside broader R&D scopes (for instance, sports-related “digital human” and motion-quality evaluation topics embedded in an international S&T cooperation special project call); the ministry’s public communications also surface digital-human deployments as showcase outcomes in national events (such as digital-human sign-language broadcasting described in a Winter Olympics-related briefing), and it is cited in secondary analyses of China’s AI strategy and governance principles that situate digital-human anchors and adjacent cultural/industrial uses within the broader state-led AI policy environment.

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