Cities in China are competing to attract companies working in AI-generated video, Reuters reports. Entrepreneur Zhu Zhili describes frequent approaches from local officials.
The story is as much industrial policy as it is creative: which cities get the businesses, and the jobs that come with them.
For places that sell themselves as production locations, it suggests a new kind of tenant: a studio whose output does not depend on a conventional shooting stage.
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Production policy is turning into a competition for businesses, not individual shoots. The test will be repeat work once the initial support ends: what makes a company stay?