Computing power prices have continued to decline in China with the rapid expansion and standardization of computing infrastructure across the country, making the once costly resource more accessible to businesses and individuals.
Several major AI model providers have recently announced permanent price reductions, with DeepSeek and Xiaomi MiMo standing out for their aggressive cuts.
These moves are substantially lowering the cost of everyday AI applications such as high-frequency Q and A, web design, coding, and other routine tasks, making advanced AI tools far more accessible.
"By increasing cache capacity fivefold, we can now process nearly five times more requests using the same hardware and computing resources. This has reduced the average cost per request by 80 percent," said Yang Bo, technical lead of the Xiaomi MiMo Large Model Team.
At the same time, China's three major telecom operators have introduced affordable subscription packages and launched related services on national computing power platform.
China Telecom offers tailored solutions for developers, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as individual and family users. China Mobile provides AI-powered coding subscription services, supporting code generation, review, architecture design, and other development needs. China Unicom uses a flexible points-based billing system, well-suited for enterprise office applications and intelligent agent deployments.
The push to expand token-based services aims to address key challenges faced by SMEs in digital transformation, such as difficulty in accessing computing power and high costs.
Computing power becomes more affordable for small businesses in China as prices plunge
A delegation of foreign diplomatic envoys visited south China's Hainan from Wednesday to Saturday, learning about the province's rapid development and exploring potential areas of cooperation.
The trip, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, brought together over 30 ambassadors, chargés d'affaires, representatives of international organizations, and senior diplomats from countries including Kenya, Serbia, Spain and Vietnam.
In Sanya's Yazhou Bay Science and Technology City, the delegates gained insights into China's independent innovation in the seed industry and the country's agricultural technological transformation in response to climate change.
"We can invite a lot of the persons from this institute to come to Dominica to teach us some of the advanced technologies and the practices that we should employ in agriculture," said Martin Charles, Dominica's Ambassador to China.
The delegates also toured the innovative drug and medical device exhibition, as well as health and wellness institutions in the Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zone.
Hailed as China's sole "medical special zone", the pilot zone is home to over 30 top-tier domestic and international medical institutions.
"The medical advances are the ones that have struck me most for the moment. There are so many fields where we can cooperate," said Javier Garcia-Larrache, Spain's charge d'affaires ad interim in China.
The delegates also visited villages to experience folk culture, including Li brocade from the Li ethnic group, traditional Chinese medicine sachets, and bamboo pole dances, immersing themselves in the province's rich and vibrant local cultures.
Foreign diplomatic envoys visit Hainan
Foreign diplomatic envoys visit Hainan
