This is Shenzhen, Guangdong. With just a few people and a few computers, you can now produce an AI short drama—the entire film and TV industry chain is being redefined.
Guangdong's one-person company (OPC) model is taking off. Guangzhou's Baiyun District offers entrepreneurs rent subsidies for up to three years. In Longgang District, Shenzhen, the time needed to generate an AI video has been cut from three to eight hours to five to eight minutes. From computing-power subsidies to order sourcing, and from creation to monetization, every link in the chain is now connected.
Guangdong-Hong Kong collaboration is becoming a distinctive strength of Guangdong's AI film and TV industry. Hong Kong takes care of overseas distribution and cross-border cooperation, Shenzhen provides the technological foundation and Guangzhou handles production on the ground. Hong Kong's global perspective and its strength in overseas distribution and cross-border cooperation, combined with Guangdong's complete AI film and TV industry chain, add up to a pairing other regions would find hard to replicate.
The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao ultra-HD OPC community has integrated Volcengine's Seedance 2.0 Enterprise Edition and now has 500P of heterogeneous computing power in place. AI is now doing most of the work for us, faster than ever before.
From content innovation to technological support, AI is becoming a major force driving high-quality development in the content industry. In 2025, China's short drama market was worth about 100 billion yuan, and the share of AI-generated content rose quickly from 30 percent to around 70 percent.
The 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting will take place in Shenzhen in November 2026, under the theme "Building an Asia-Pacific Community of Shared Future, Promoting Shared Prosperity," with openness, innovation and cooperation as the priority areas.
Guangdong's lab for taking AI film and TV overseas, its overseas market database and its AI short dramas are expected to become major projects in China's push to take its cultural content global.
Today, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has built a cross-sector collaboration platform for "AI + film and TV," driving deeper integration of artificial intelligence with the creative film and TV industry.
When Guangdong's creativity meets the Asia-Pacific market, the AI film and TV industry has a bright future.
Authors | Guan Xiruyi, Li Qian, Chen Rongwei, Gong Chunhui
Revisors | Liu Lingzhi, Huang Qini, Wei Shen
