By midnight, Beijing Time, nearly 3,400 medical personnel had either participated in the live webcast or watched the playback.

Two separate rooms are full of webcast equipment.

Yang showed some infrastructure set up in the village to promote the so-called internet economy, including a training school for webcast hosts, a courier firm, and an outdoor park that serves as a set where ads are shot and also doubles up as a site for tours.

They're not allowed to give tips to webcast anchors, nor use the livestreaming function themselves.

In order to face fierce online market competition, local enterprises adopted webcast marketing and large data analysis to optimize production and sales.

"The succession announcement was broadcast on a webcast through the automaker's Toyota Times channel in what looked more like a stilted talk show with a host rather than a formal corporate announcement.

The bond listing ceremony was held on Thursday at the Hong Kong bourse via a live webcast, attended by Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu, Hainan Governor Feng Fei, Finance Vice-Minister Xu Hongcai and officials and executives from the two regions.

US Federal Reserve Vice-Chairman Richard Clarida said in a webcast on Wednesday that the central bank is likely to hit its inflation and employment goals by the end of 2022 and start raising interest rates again in 2023.

CCB Wealth Management Co Ltd, a fully-owned subsidiary of China Construction Bank Corp, was one of the first companies to embrace the new medium when it conducted a three-day online wealth management course through a webcast platform last month.