140 Trillion Token Calls: AI Agents Reshaping China's Compute Economy

In early 2024, China's daily token call volume was still around the 10 billion level. By March 2026, this number had skyrocketed to 140 trillion, representing over 1000x growth in two years. This data comes from a preview by Wei Liang, Vice President of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), on CCTV's "China Economic Lecture Hall." It is not an isolated statistic, but a mirror reflecting the underlying logic of the AI industry moving from the "conversation era" to the "agent era."