China’s Daily Inference Volume Reaches 500 Trillion Tokens
At the 2026 AI Innovation Ecosystem Conference held in Hefei on 8 November and co-hosted by the CAS Hefei institute and Huawei, delegates said China’s average daily inference token calls have grown to about 500 trillion. With 1,200-plus attendees and eight parallel sessions, the meeting marked a shift in emphasis from training capacity to inference capacity — the side of the ledger where domestic chips, intelligent computing centres and industry agents compete.