The Temple of Heaven Museum was officially inaugurated on Saturday in Beijing, marking the completion of dedicated museums for all eight of the city's World Heritage Sites.
Beijing is home to eight UNESCO World Heritage Sites: the Palace Museum (Forbidden City), the Temple of Heaven, the Summer Palace, the Great Wall, the Ming Tombs, the Grand Canal, the Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site, and the Beijing Central Axis.
At the Temple of Heaven, its newly renovated Divine Music Administration and other exhibitions areas like the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests and Divine Kitchen form the entire museum, where ritual musical instruments and connotations of traditional ritual system will be presented.
In addition, Beijing's cultural heritage monitoring and early warning system platform was launched as well.
Using digital technology, the system covers all the city's World Heritage Sites. Through this closed-loop management, it provides digital protection for the sites.
Temple of Heaven Museum officially inaugurated
By leveraging the Shanghai Science and Technology Film City, Shanghai is forging a full-chain AI film ecosystem that covers computing power, data, models, and application scenarios, thus driving the integrated development of "film plus technology."
At a workshop during this year's Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF), staff showed how a green screen and virtual studio can create a video of someone flying on a sword in only 10 minutes, a process that once took hours or even days.
"Our new AI workflow can bypass the tedious process of creating 3D assets. We only need a simple white model to position the actor within the scene. Then, AI takes care of everything, including integration of lights and shadows, computer-generated visual effects, and traditional manual production, dramatically improving efficiency," said Wang Yi, marketing director of a Shanghai-based virtual production technology company.
Technological innovation, continuous upgrades, and the pursuit of quality have become industry standards for filmmakers and television producers.
"What we're working on now is using a full AI workflow to adapt a classic black-and-white movie into a short drama series of 60 episodes, each about two to three minutes long. With the rapid improvement of large language model capabilities, on the production side, we can complete a short drama project of over 100 minutes in just about two months," said Yu Xin, a person in charge of a company based at the Shanghai Science and Technology Film City AI Creation Ecosystem Center.
Located in Songjiang District, the Shanghai Science and Technology Film City houses over 8,000 film and TV enterprises, forming a full-chain AI ecosystem that covers computing power, data, models, and application scenarios.
"The AI Creation Ecosystem Center has attracted more than 50 companies over the past year and secured over 50 million yuan in commercial commissions. Moving forward, we will provide support not only in terms of computing power and funding but also through talent-related policies," said Zhao Huiying, director of the Songjiang District Culture and Tourism Bureau.
Shanghai drives 'film plus technology' with AI ecosystem
