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on september 24, the opening ceremony of the 2024 first china digital human conference hosted by the internet society of china was held in haidian. the "china digital human development report (2024)" released at the conference proposed that 2024 will be the year of breakthrough in the comprehensive application of digital humans. from january to may this year, more than 174,000 new digital human-related companies have emerged in my country. it is estimated that in 2025, the scale of the industry market driven by china's digital humans and the scale of the core market will reach 640.27 billion yuan and 48.06 billion yuan respectively.

with 3 minutes of real-person oral video and 100 sentences of voice material, a digital human with a similar image and voice to a real person can be obtained, and the cost has been reduced from millions of yuan to hundreds of yuan; there is no need to wear any motion capture device, just stand in front of the camera for a few seconds, and the system can complete the precise capture of human motion information, with an error within 5 mm... at the conference, a number of new technologies and applications of digital humans were unveiled. the report pointed out that the application of digital humans is moving from the stage of "playing" dominated by media and entertainment applications to the stage of "using" dominated by services and industries.

"digital humans are becoming an active entry point for the application of artificial intelligence," said shang bing, chairman of the internet society of china, in his opening speech as a digital human. digital humans have strong connections, embedding, and integration with industries such as big data, smart terminals, and embodied intelligence, and may become one of the active interactive interfaces of the next generation of the internet. chen jiachun, vice chairman and executive vice secretary-general of the internet society of china, also believes that digital humans have become an effective tool for the application of artificial intelligence and are expected to become a new entry point for human-computer interaction.

tang chao, deputy director of the zhongguancun science city management committee and deputy mayor of haidian district, said that haidian district is accelerating the construction of an artificial intelligence industry highland with global influence. digital humans, as the finishing touch in the metaverse scene, have the characteristics of small incisions, wide scenarios, and fast implementation. they can quickly improve the penetration rate of artificial intelligence technology and are the key development direction of haidian district.

the latest data provided by the conference shows that as of now, there are more than 1.144 million digital human-related enterprises in my country. from january to may this year, the number of digital human-related enterprises has increased significantly, with more than 174,000 new enterprises registered.

source: beijing daily client

reporter: sun qiru, wang haixin