Jiangyou Culture outlines large-scale AI comic-drama expansion
Founder Huang Haonan says Jiangyou Culture has grown to about 1,000 people and plans expansion into animation, overseas markets, IP and games.
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In a December 21, 2025 interview published by Crossing, Jiangyou Culture founder Huang Haonan, who writes under the name Jiangyou, said the company had expanded to about 1,000 people after going all in on AI comic dramas in September and had surpassed RMB 50 million in gross revenue. He described plans to expand capacity in 2026, enter Chinese animation, distribute content overseas, build an IP ecosystem and develop games. The interview also described production economics at the time: industry costs of about RMB 1,000 per minute, labor representing roughly 60% of his team's costs, and humans still leading script and storyboard work. The scale and financial figures are the founder's claims and were not independently audited.
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The interview captures the boom-era logic of low-cost generation, industrialized production and rapid hiring, creating a useful baseline for the efficiency surge and oversupply reported later.
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Company scale, revenue and expansion plans are founder statements, not independently verified outcomes.