Chen Caiying

Chen Caiying (陈采瑩) is a Chinese producer who worked in the traditional film and television industry before moving to AI short dramas. Zhejiang's Chao News describes her as the chief producer (总制片) of Xing'an Mountains Strange Tales (兴安岭诡事), the first work of the company Juhe Intelligence (炬核智能), which was founded in August 2024.

She told the paper that the team, seven people at the time, took four and a half months to finish the 11-episode series of about 20 minutes, and revised the script more than ten times because the video models of the time could not follow creators' requests. She puts its cost at a little over 600,000 yuan against at least four to five million for a conventional shoot, and says it turned a profit. The series went online in February 2025, passing 10 million plays in 21 hours and more than 100 million across platforms, about 57 million of them on Douyin.

She has described the sequel, released in December 2025, as taking three and a half months and running twice as long, with character and scene consistency rising from 60 to 70 percent to 80 to 90 percent, and about 98 percent in later work. She says AI live-action performance can still look stiff, sees AI as an aid to rather than a replacement for traditional film, and advises filmmakers to combine AI with live shooting.