Beijing moves to grade token factories under 2026-2028 action plan

Beijing’s Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology and the Municipal Development and Reform Commission have issued the Action Plan for Accelerating the Development of the Token Economy in Beijing (2026-2028), laying out a framework to build what the document calls token factories to a high standard. The plan says Beijing will formulate a graded evaluation standard for token factories. The assessment will cover core technical indicators including the number of model adaptations, token throughput speed, first-token latency, cache hit rate, and power usage effectiveness, or PUE. The document also says the city will improve support around land resources, energy-consumption quotas, and communications networks, while backing token factories with industry-leading influence. On the technology side, the plan calls for faster iteration of foundation model technology to raise the upper bound of model intelligence. It also mentions work on model-chip adaptation and tuning, and support for research in inference-focused chips, model lightweighting, and edge deployment. In parallel, the document says Beijing will build and use intelligent computing resources at a high level to lift overall token production capacity.