The token has turned into hard currency—this supermarket in Wuxi is operating brilliantly, and small and micro enterprises can finally enjoy AI at low cost.

According to data from the National Data Bureau, China’s average daily Token call volume has jumped from 100 billion at the beginning of 2024 to 140 trillion in March 2026, and Tokens are becoming a new kind of hard currency in the intelligent era. In Wuxi, Jiangsu, a city-level “Token Supermarket” has been launched, providing multi-model calls with pricing based on usage, connecting enterprises, universities, and research institutions, and integrating the computing power, model, and application ecosystems. For small and micro enterprises, costs are lower and efficiency is significantly higher. After a local security company connected, its monthly development fee was below 10,000, its R&D and personnel costs fell by about 50%, its development efficiency improved by 80%, and AI is no longer exclusive to large companies.