China: Southern China's latest export: AI tokens.

Storyline Southern China's latest export: AI tokens Data companies in southern China's Guangdong Province are engaging in a new kind of foreign trade-exporting digital tokens. A token is the smallest unit of measurement that represents a word or part of a word that AI large models use to process text. Exporting tokens involves leveraging domestic computing power and sending processed results overseas via submarine optical cables. This year, with the surge in overseas AI demand, the digital token export business has experienced rapid growth. Kang Kai, Head of Southeast Region, Inspur Cloud Information Technology: "We have increased our daily overseas token outflow from 100 million to over 10 billion, and it's still increasing." Data shows that in 2025, China's daily token calls increased exponentially from over one trillion at the beginning of the year to 100 trillion by the end. [Restrictions: No access Chinese mainland]