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Zhonghua Book Company (中华书局), the venerable classical-texts publisher founded in 1912, has positioned itself as a pioneer in applying digital humans to the preservation and dissemination of traditional Chinese culture. In August 2022, on its 110th anniversary, it released what it billed as the country's first 3D hyper-realistic digital human of a historical literary figure, "Su Dongpo" (苏东坡), developed through its subsidiary Gulian Company (古联公司) and built on a classical-texts big-data resource exceeding seven billion characters, from which the team constructed a character database, knowledge graph, and a "Su Dongpo digital brain" intended to give the figure period-appropriate cognition, thought, and expression. The Su Dongpo digital human subsequently appeared at high-profile venues including CCTV's 2023 China Poetry Conference and the 2023 Zhongguancun Forum, and the company extended the concept into a broader "Chinese Sages" (中华先贤) series that added hyper-realistic digital humans of Li Bai and Li Qingzhao. The underlying technical effort connects to Gulian Company's collaboration with Nanjing Agricultural University on the "Xunzi" (荀子) classical-texts large language model, which underpins AI reading-companion and intelligent knowledge services. The company has since broadened its deployments through partnerships, joining with Datong's municipal authorities in January 2025 to launch a "Mulan 3D hyper-realistic digital human" (花木兰) intended as a city cultural image, and signing a strategic agreement the same month with Jieli Publishing (接力出版社) covering digital cultural content, Chinese-sage AI study companions and tutors, and immersive AI education spaces. By 2026 the firm was presenting a "Chinese Wisdom Reading Space" using CAVE immersive projection that lets readers converse directly with its Su Dongpo, Li Bai, and Li Qingzhao digital humans, reflecting a sustained strategy of using virtual historical personae as interactive media to bring ancient texts to a contemporary audience.