A 54-YEAR-OLD man from Hebei, China, who has no filmmaking experience, managed to earn 10 million yuan (RM6mil) and settle all his debts by making artificial intelligence (AI) videos which kept viewers glued to their screens, Oriental Daily reported.
Entrepreneur Zhang Hansheng had previously tried his hand at various businesses without success, leaving him saddled with heavy debt.
However, his fortunes turned around when he learnt AI video production and created the viral hit Entering the Song Dynasty with Weapons.
The time-travel series surpassed four billion views and was saved more than 11 million times.
Zhang spent all of 2025 picking up the skill, often spending more than 10 hours a day learning how to use AI to make videos.
He subsequently assembled a 30-member team of fellow enthusiasts, including stay-at-home mothers, e-hailing drivers, delivery riders and office workers.
Netizens expressed amazement that a team with zero filmmaking background achieved such monumental success, with many praising AI for lowering the entry barriers to film production.
> A traditional Chinese physician had 100 prescriptions, including ingredient names and dosages, engraved on her tomb so that future generations could refer to them for free, Sin Chew Daily reported.
Yuan Shufang, who died at 97 in 2006, had always held that medicine should not be monopolised.
“Medicine does not belong to me alone. It belongs to everyone!” she had reportedly said.
Before her death, she instructed family members to inscribe all of her complete prescriptions on her tombstone located in Xiping county, Henan.
According to the grandson, the woman kept a red notebook with extensive entries when she was alive, out of which she picked 100 to have them engraved.
The formulae covered areas such as paediatrics, gynaecology and surgery.
Duan Hongxia, a traditional physician, made three separate visits to the tomb in the past seven years to copy the inscriptions.
In her most recent visit, she resorted to taking photographs to prevent errors.
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