On September 24th, Shantou held the 2026 Token Going Global Innovation and Development Conference in the China (Shantou) Pilot Zone for Economic and Cultural Cooperation with Overseas Chinese, accelerating efforts to chart a new course for cross-border digital trade.

In late April this year, the Shantou Overseas Chinese Pilot Zone completed the full-chain commercial closed-loop verification for Token Going Global. In less than five months, average daily token usage surged from 100 million to 100 billion. At present, average daily token demand from overseas businesses registered in Shantou has exceeded 3 trillion.

At the conference, the international arms of China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom jointly activated the global resource pool for Token Going Global, marking Shantou's transition from single-point pilot projects to global, large-scale operations.

The International Zero-Carbon Computing Power Port was officially launched at the conference. Located in the core area of Shantou Liuhe Industrial Park, the project will cover about 413 mu in its first phase, with a planned IT capacity of 400 MW and a total investment of 120 billion yuan. It will build an integrated green computing power park combining source, grid, load and storage with computing power, electricity, cooling and carbon emissions, forming a complete value chain from green electricity to green computing power and green tokens.

Huawei Technologies and Guangdong TianYiMa Information Industry Co., Ltd. signed an agreement on cooperation in an Ascend 950DT computing cluster at the conference, making Shantou one of the first cities in China to deploy Huawei's latest Ascend 950DT chips.

According to briefings at the conference, the Ascend 950 SuperPoD organizes more than 1,000 computing cards to function as a single logical computer, helping improve the efficiency of large-scale model training and inference. Once the Ascend 950DT computing cluster is deployed, it will be able to connect more efficiently with local communications networks, dedicated cross-border channels, computing power scheduling platforms and application companies, turning energy and computing power into measurable, tradable and sustainably deliverable digital services.

The conference also saw the signing of a number of computing center construction and computing power cooperation projects. Among them, Shantou Mobile and the Shantou Overseas Chinese Pilot Zone signed an agreement to launch a domestic 10,000-card computing power pool project. The project will establish dedicated computing power zones for industrial and model applications, with the goal of creating the first 10,000-card-scale domestic intelligent computing cluster in eastern Guangdong and a leading benchmark for such clusters in China.