By employing AI segmentation technology, the model unites meeting attendees in a common virtual background such as in a theater or an auditorium, instead of being separated in boxes in the conventional way.

Ma answered questions at the discussion attended by some 1,200-people audience at the auditorium on a number of issues, including chip development, health industry, employment, and business operation, among others.

They must also not spend them on projects that are prohibited for the use of such monies, such as office buildings, auditoriums, hotels, guest houses and image-boosting projects — or for purely commercial purposes — in order to strictly prevent local governments from taking on new hidden debt.

Occupying a 26,680-square-meter site in the city's Songjiang district, it has training classrooms, themed livestreaming studios and an auditorium the size of a basketball court.

But Huang hastened to add she is willing to do so only if cinemas maintain social distancing norms both inside and outside their auditoriums, and carry out strict disinfection measures on their premises.

They must not spend them on projects that are prohibited for the use of such money, like office buildings, auditoriums, hotels, guest houses and image-boosting projects, or for purely commercial purposes, therefore strictly preventing local governments from taking on new hidden debt.

On Thursday morning, the cemetery's auditorium was immersed in solemnity, with a mournful dirge playing in the background.