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Silk Road Visual Technology Co., Ltd. (丝路视觉科技股份有限公司, 300556.SZ) is a Shenzhen-based listed company founded in 2002, specializing in computer graphics and digital visual services across sectors including digital exhibition, cultural tourism, smart governance, and immersive experience design. The company integrates CG, VR, AR, and AI technologies to deliver end-to-end visual solutions for museums, science centers, urban planning exhibitions, and industrial showcase environments, and has completed major commissions for institutions including the National Museum of China and the Wuzhen World Internet Science and Technology Museum. Silk Road Visual's group structure encompasses Ruiyun Technology for visual cloud computing and Tiya Digital Technology for digital twin and big data visualization applications.
Its subsidiary Shenzhen Silk Road Shichuang Technology (深圳丝路视创科技有限公司) handles the group's VR, AR, and MR content development operations, and operates digital human production as one capability within a broader immersive content and XR technology portfolio. Silk Road Shichuang offers full-chain digital human production services encompassing character creation, rendering, and deployment, with applications spanning cultural tourism navigation, exhibition hall experiences, and educational environments, including its flagship K-12 VR instruction product "Zhihuigong" (智慧宫). In March 2023, the company became the first in its sector to formally integrate GPT-4 into digital content production workflows, and its virtual digital human matrix had accumulated over five million followers across platforms as of the most recent available reporting period.