Chinese localities racing to build ‘token factories’
2026-05-19 14:07 环球时报网英文版
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From the tech hubs of East China"s Jiangsu Province to the renewable-energy-rich plains of Northwest China"s Gansu Province, a growing number of regions across China are racing to build large-scale "token factories," with Honflex, a domestic artificial intelligence (AI) computing power company, just announcing a core computing power hub backed by Huawei.
Chinese experts said that this reflects China"s trend of accelerating the commercialization of computing power, and as more domestically-made chips support more scenarios, the move also plays a major role in supporting the nation"s independent control over computing power.
On Sunday, China Mobile announced that it has built a core computing power hub for Central China in Hubei Province, featuring domestically developed AI computing infrastructure. The intelligent computing scale exceeds 2,200 petaflops, providing robust computing support for key applications such as AI large-language models, the industrial internet, and digital twins, the company told the Global Times on Sunday.
On Friday, the first Huawei Ascend 384 supernode computing cluster in Jiangsu, jointly built by Honflex and the Wuxi High-tech Zone, was settled in Wuxi, according to the official WeChat account of the Wuxi Daily.
With the Huawei supernode computing cluster as the initial infrastructure, Honflex will establish a large-scale "token factory" in Wuxi. This will set a new benchmark for large-scale, high-performance computing clusters featuring domestic chips and domestic models.
The "token factory" being established will initially deploy four Huawei Ascend 384 supernode servers. This is the factory"s greatest strength, and it is understood that this scale is second to none among the current market-facing "token factories" in China, the report said.




