Top 10 AI Design Tools Dominating China in 2026

1. Meitu Design Studio — The All-in-One AI Commercial Design Powerhouse

Meitu Design Studio (美图设计室) is an all-in-one AI commercial design tool developed by Meitu — the company famous for its Meitu Xiuxiu photo editing app. Positioned as an “AI全能设计工具” (all-powerful AI design tool), Meitu Design Studio focuses on the most practical commercial design scenarios: e-commerce design, social media marketing, video marketing, brand identity (VI), creative posters, and office design.

The core strength of Meitu Design Studio lies in its AI features specialized for e-commerce: AI Product Images allows users to upload product photos and the AI automatically generates multiple scene images with different backgrounds, completely eliminating the need for physical product photography; AI Model Try-On creates model photos wearing clothes without needing real models; and AI Posters generates marketing posters from a single description. Additional features include AI object removal, AI image enhancement, smart background removal in 2 seconds, and automatic sensitive information blurring.

In terms of real-world impact, Meitu Design Studio has served over 1.5 million e-commerce users, reducing design time from 3 days to 10 seconds, generating over 18 million product images, and saving approximately 1.8 billion RMB for sellers. The platform offers over 100,000+ high-quality templates with commercial licenses, covering major festivals, store promotions, new product launches, and recruitment. This is an indispensable tool for anyone working in China’s e-commerce sector.

2. Chuangkit — Comprehensive AI Design Platform with 100 Million+ Users

Chuangkit (创客贴) is one of China’s largest online graphic design platforms with over 100 million users. With more than 1 million design templates, 100 million+ commercially licensed images, and 1,200+ commercial fonts, Chuangkit serves over 200 scenarios ranging from enterprise marketing, event exhibitions, e-commerce to administrative documents and content creation.

In 2025, Chuangkit launched AI Creation 2.0 — a paradigm shift from traditional design tools to a comprehensive visual content production platform powered by AI. The most distinctive feature is its ability to AI Generate Design — creating layered design files rather than just static images. This allows users to precisely edit individual layers after AI generation, solving the “rigidity” problem of conventional AI image tools. The workflow involves four agents: requirement understanding, creative construction, intelligent layout, and design rendering.

Additionally, Chuangkit supports Reference Image Creation (generating images based on reference photos using multimodal style transfer technology), Semantic Image Editing (pixel-level editing through natural language commands like “change letter A to letter C”), AI Batch Design (mass-producing content from a single layout), and AI Direct-to-Print (from digital design to physical products like 3D figurines, T-shirts, stickers, and canvas bags). The tool also integrates DeepSeek for AI copywriting, supports 11 languages for translation, and allows multi-type content editing (images, PPTs, web pages, videos, animations) on a single canvas.

3. Kling AI — “China’s Sora” from Kuaishou

Kling AI (可灵AI) is an AI video generation model developed by Kuaishou AI Team — TikTok/Douyin’s direct competitor in China. Launched in June 2024, Kling AI quickly earned the nickname “China’s Sora” thanks to its ability to generate 1080p resolution videos up to 2 minutes long with free aspect ratios, using a 3D Spatio-Temporal Joint Attention architecture similar to Sora.

By 2026, Kling AI has evolved to Video 3.0 with several breakthrough features: All-around Reference for higher consistency and more flexible control; All-around Narrative with 15-second smart storyboards, creating cinematic-feeling videos with a single click; and Audio-Visual Synchronization — separating image and audio features to create synchronized audiovisual experiences. The latest version also supports Motion Control, allowing control over body movements, facial expressions, lip movements, and hand gestures for 30 seconds continuously.

Kling AI also offers Smart Canvas Agent Mode — an intelligent agent mode with automatic storyboarding and multi-angle camera expansion, enabling short video creation in a single step. Beyond video, Kling AI includes the Kling Image O1 module for text-to-image generation with superior lighting and image quality. With competitive pricing and a Chinese-language interface, Kling AI is the top choice for Chinese creators needing high-quality AI video at low cost.

4. Jimeng AI — ByteDance’s Multimodal Creative Platform

Jimeng AI (即梦AI) is a one-stop AI image and video creation platform from ByteDance — TikTok’s parent company. Deeply integrated with Seedance 2.0 and Seedream 5.0 Pro, Jimeng AI allows users to generate high-quality images and videos from text descriptions alone, without any Photoshop or Live knowledge.

Jimeng AI’s strength lies in its minimalist interaction design that breaks down creative barriers. The platform provides hundreds of themed prompt templates such as “Cyberpunk Neon Matrix” and “Traditional Chinese Ink Landscape,” helping users transform abstract ideas into visual works in seconds. Smart post-production tools include: Lossless Image Expansion (extending images without quality loss), Local Semantic Repainting (region-specific editing by semantics), and 4K HD Restoration.

Technically, Jimeng AI leverages ByteDance’s cloud computing clusters to run AI drawing and video generation directly in the browser, eliminating the need for high-end GPUs. The platform supports Cross-Media Creation: text to illustration, line sketch to 3D scene, static photo to animated digital human. Notably, the Smart Motion Transfer feature allows users to upload a reference photo and a motion video, with the AI automatically analyzing facial movement patterns and generating animated videos from static images. Additionally, Jimeng AI supports text-to-storyboard script generation and audio-driven lip sync, reducing traditional creative cycles by 80%.

5. Seedance 2.0 — ByteDance’s Cinematic Video Generation Engine

Seedance 2.0 is ByteDance Seed’s flagship video generation model, launched in February 2026 and quickly making waves in the international community. Positioned as a “director-level cinematic full-process generation engine,” Seedance 2.0 can understand complex natural language commands and transform them into cinematic video content.

Seedance 2.0’s most groundbreaking feature is its ability to generate coherent multi-scene videos from a single instruction. The AI automatically analyzes narrative logic, creating tightly linked shot sequences while maintaining high consistency in character, lighting, style, and atmosphere — achieving near “zero post-production” results. The model uses a dual-branch diffusion transformer architecture to synchronize video and audio generation, requiring only 60 seconds to produce a multi-scene video with complete original audio.

Seedance 2.0 also supports multi-modal all-around reference, allowing combinations of text, image, video, and audio inputs. The model can accurately understand multimodal input content and generate videos referencing elements like frame composition, camera language, motion rhythm, and audio characteristics — even directly referencing text-based storyboard content. The real-world effects of Seedance 2.0 have impressed international experts, with comments that China’s AI video technology is “leading by two generations” compared to publicly available US technologies. However, due to privacy and copyright concerns, ByteDance has temporarily suspended support for uploading real human photos/videos as references and requires biometric verification before generating human-figure videos.

6. Tongyi Wanxiang — Alibaba’s AI Image Design Tool

Tongyi Wanxiang (通义万相) is an AI image generation tool within Alibaba’s Tongyi ecosystem. Rated as one of China’s top three AI绘画 (AI painting) tools (alongside Jimeng and Wenxin Yige), Tongyi Wanxiang excels at generating design images, cityscapes, and logos with high quality.

According to a 30-day evaluation with 300 images, Tongyi Wanxiang achieved a total score of 8.29/10, ranking highest among the three tools. Specific strengths include: Commercial Products (white background product images) at 8.8/10, Cityscapes at 9.2/10, Food Close-ups at 8.5/10, and Logo Design at 8.8/10. This makes Tongyi Wanxiang particularly suitable for designers needing commercial imagery, brand design, and professional marketing content.

Tongyi Wanxiang offers 20 free images per day, with a basic plan at ¥29/month and a professional plan at ¥99/month. Unique features include: Smart Layout (automatically adding text/logos/borders to images — extremely useful for posters and public covers), Vector Mode (exporting logos directly as SVG — a huge benefit for designers), and Style Fusion (blending 2-3 styles like “Traditional Chinese + Cyberpunk” or “Anime + Realistic”). With Alibaba’s powerful design foundation, Tongyi Wanxiang is the ideal choice for businesses looking to integrate AI into their commercial design workflows.

7. Wenxin Yige — Baidu’s AI Image Generator

Wenxin Yige (文心一格) is an AI image generation tool developed by Baidu, based on the Wenxin Large Model and PaddlePaddle Deep Learning Platform. Positioned as an “AI Art and Creative Assistance Platform,” Wenxin Yige allows users to generate images simply by entering a description and selecting direction, style, and size.

Wenxin Yige’s most notable strength is its ability to create realistic portraits and e-commerce product images. In the 30-day evaluation, Wenxin Yige scored highest in Realistic Portraits (9.5/10) and Commercial Products (8.5/10), outperforming competitors. The Character Consistency feature allows uploading a single face and generating 100 different images with the same face — extremely useful for creating digital humans and virtual IPs. The Realism Enhancement mode can create portraits that are “fake yet real,” suitable for projects requiring high authenticity.

Wenxin Yige provides 50 free images per day — more than Jimeng (30) and Tongyi Wanxiang (20). The basic plan costs ¥39/month and the professional plan ¥99/month. Another useful feature is Multi-Size Batch Generation (creating 9 different sizes from a single prompt), saving time when content is needed for multiple platforms. However, Wenxin Yige still lags behind Jimeng in generating 二次元 (anime) and 国风 (traditional Chinese) styles. This is the ideal tool for e-commerce teams needing high-quality product images and model photos at low cost.

8. Duiyou — Alibaba Design’s Comprehensive AI + 3D Platform

Duiyou (堆友) is a one-stop AI design platform developed by Alibaba Design and Alibaba International Digital Commerce Group. Positioned as a “designer full growth cycle service platform,” Duiyou integrates AI painting, 3D asset libraries, smart toolboxes, and online collaboration features.

Duiyou’s unique feature is the combination of AI generation and 3D design. The platform provides over 5,000 free commercially usable 3D models and tens of thousands of AI-generated assets. The 3D Online Editor allows editing 3D models through a drag-and-drop interface, supporting material adjustment, lighting, and animation effects — suitable for users without 3D experience. AI tools in the AI Toolbox include: Wantu Background Removal (batch background removal, up to 20 images simultaneously), Model Skin Tone Change (changing model skin tones/outfits for multi-region e-commerce), and HD Upscaling & Restoration.

Duiyou also features an AI Reactor for text-to-image, image-to-image, and community style replication (one-click same style). With over 100 million active users, generating over 100,000 works daily, Duiyou has become one of China’s largest AI design platforms. The platform also offers an Education Edition used by China’s TOP 20 design universities, including Zhejiang University and Jiangnan University. For designers needing to combine AI and 3D in their workflow, Duiyou is an unmissable choice.

9. Gaoding Design — China’s Canva with Deep AI Integration

Gaoding Design (稿定设计) is one of China’s leading online graphic design platforms, often compared to Canva but with deep optimization for the domestic market. With millions of templates and a rich library of licensed images, Gaoding Design serves diverse needs from social media marketing, e-commerce design to office documents.

At the end of 2025, Gaoding Design launched its AI Creation Assistant — an AI assistant capable of automatically generating graphic layouts from text and integrating major domestic AI models. Gaoding Design’s strength over Canva lies in its deeper understanding of Chinese semantics, thanks to using domestic AI models rather than English translation pipelines. The templates are also very “down-to-earth” — from festival promotions, 国潮 (national trend) styles, to vertical posters for Xiaohongshu, all have dedicated categories. The enterprise plan at ¥899/year provides Brand Kit features similar to Canva Teams but at a significantly lower price.

However, Gaoding Design’s real-time collaboration experience is still not as smooth as Canva — an area for future improvement. For Chinese businesses needing a design platform with “right taste” domestic market templates and AI that understands Chinese well, Gaoding Design is the top choice.

10. Xingliu AI — Multimodal AI Design Agent from LiblibAI

Xingliu AI (星流AI) is a multimodal AI design agent developed by LiblibAI. This is one of China’s most advanced AI design tools, supporting the entire creative chain from images, video, 3D to audio, with fine-grained editing capabilities and low barrier to entry.

Xingliu AI is deeply optimized for Chinese context, helping users write prompts in Chinese for better results than international tools. The platform supports full-chain multi-modal creation — meaning users can create multi-modal content within the same workflow, from static images to dynamic videos, from 3D models to background audio. This saves designers and creators time switching between multiple tools.

Although Xingliu AI is relatively new compared to giants like Jimeng or Tongyi Wanxiang, with its “agent-based design” philosophy and multi-modal capabilities, this platform is quickly attracting attention from China’s creator community. This is a tool worth watching for those interested in the AI agent trend in design.

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Conclusion

China’s AI design tool market in 2026 is in a state of explosive growth and fierce competition. Major tech companies including ByteDance, Alibaba, Baidu, Kuaishou, and Meitu are all pouring massive resources into this field, each pursuing a distinct strategic direction:

ByteDance leads in AI video generation with Jimeng AI and Seedance 2.0, particularly in multi-scene cinematic video creation with synchronized audio. Alibaba focuses on AI commercial design with Tongyi Wanxiang and Duiyou, deeply integrated with the e-commerce ecosystem. Baidu excels in realistic image generation and character consistency with Wenxin Yige. Kuaishou competes directly with Sora through Kling AI. Meitu and Chuangkit focus on practical AI commercial design tools, solving specific pain points in the e-commerce industry.

The common trends across these tools are deep specialization (each tool focusing on a specific domain), multi-modal integration (images, video, 3D, audio within a single platform), and optimization for Chinese context (better understanding of Chinese prompts than international tools). Notably, tools like Chuangkit and Meitu Design Studio are gradually shifting from “generating static images” to “creating editable design files” — a crucial advancement that helps AI truly become a production tool rather than just an inspiration tool.

For international designers and creators, following and learning from China’s domestic AI tools offers fresh perspectives on how AI can be integrated into commercial design workflows, how to optimize for local language and culture, and how to balance AI creativity with practical business needs. In the global AI race, China is proving that it is not just a follower, but a leader in many areas of AI design.