Storyline: AI opens doors to new careers in China [Voice_over] In China, artificial intelligence is unleashing a wave of new career opportunities across industries spanning from entertainment to e-commerce. One new job is that of digital avatar trainer, specialists who develop, program, and refine AI-driven virtual characters that are used in applications like online shopping and education. The digital trainers teach AI avatars to mimic even the most subtle of human facial expressions and body language with remarkable precision. During live shopping streams, they can even analyze viewer comments and generate natural, real-time responses. [Sound_bite] Sun Jiaxin, AI avatar trainer: "Some merchants operate dozens, even more than 100 live streams simultaneously to promote different products. The cost for a digital avatar is around 200-270 U.S. dollars per month. Compare that to a human host who costs about 2,700-4,100 U.S. dollar monthly in salary alone, plus additional expenses for co-hosts, operations, studio rental, and equipment. Digital avatars can replace all of these." [Voice_over] Those in the industry say besides avatar trainers, jobs like generative AI directors, digital animators, and AI training specialists are also emerging as fast-growing career paths. [Sound_bite] Wu Chenxia, head, digital avatar innovation department, internet technology firm: "Virtually every company is now adopting AI, but skilled talent remains extremely scarce. Currently, the talent pool mainly consists of employees from major tech firms, with a small fraction being AI-focused graduate students or PhD candidates." [Voice_over] According to projections, China's AI-generated content market will reach about 140 billion U.S. dollars by 2030. [Restrictions : No access Chinese mainland]