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Sustained experimental and theoretical investigations into the particle over the past two decades have propelled its study into a high-precision regime, marked by refined measurements of its decay dynamics and line shape, thereby offering critical insights for resolving longstanding debates between molecular, tetraquark, hybrid, and charmonium interpretations of this particle. Furthermore, the heavy-quark symmetry in the molecular picture predicts a series of \u03c7c1(3872) partners. The BESIII experiment has made seminal contributions to the study of the \u03c7c1(3872), leveraging its unique capabilities in high-statistics data acquisition and low-background condition, such as observations of the productions e+e\u2212\u2192\u03b3\u03c7c1(3872) and \u03c9\u03c7c1(3872) and investigations of its decays. 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