Shenzhen Longgang explores economic statistics and governance of words to create a "ruler" for the smart economy

China News Service, Shenzhen, November 14 (Reporter Cai Minjie) On the 13th, the Longgang District Artificial Intelligence (Robotics) Department of Shenzhen and Ernst & Young jointly launched the innovative practice of word economic statistics and governance. The two parties used Longgang as the first comprehensive verification scenario to promote the transformation of word yuan from smart service billing records into comparable and reviewable public statistics, and established a set of statistics, monitoring and governance systems to accelerate the outbreak of the word economy.

As the basic unit of large-model information processing and commercial pricing, word elements have become a "new digital production factor" in the AI ​​era. The word element economy takes word elements as the core value measurement and transaction unit, and runs through the entire industry chain of computing power supply, model production, distribution and scheduling, and scenario application.

According to the "Research Report on Token Economic Development (2026)" released by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology in September, as the application of artificial intelligence accelerates, China's average daily use of tokens has increased from 100 billion in early 2024 to 500 trillion in June 2026, and the economic vitality of tokens will continue to be released.

The steeper the growth curve, the clearer the gaps in measurement: data are scattered and of different calibers, quantity does not equal quality, and consumption does not equal value. There is still no generally accepted statistical framework for how to aggregate the "quantity" of word elements, how to compare "quality", and how to measure "value". Smart economy requires a ruler.

Bi Shunjie, partner in charge of Ernst & Young's Greater China business, said: "Weights and measures are the cornerstone of economic operation, and words are becoming the accounting unit of the smart economy. However, to turn it from a billing record into a public statistics requires unified accounts, transparent calibers and reviewable methods; words are not without data. The real question is whether scattered call records can become reliable public statistics."

Longgang is building the only provincial experimental zone in Guangdong named after "Artificial Intelligence and Robot Application Reform", and has issued the "Shenzhen Longgang District Accelerating the Development of Ci Yuan Economy Action Plan (2026-2028)" to include "measurement" in the entire chain deployment of Ci Yuan Economy.

In this cooperation, the Longgang District Artificial Intelligence (Robotics) Department takes the lead in coordinating and providing real application scenarios for government affairs, enterprises, residents, and ecology. Ernst & Young leverages its professional accumulation in the fields of statistical measurement and assurance to participate in the research of account design, statistical calibers, calibration methods, and release rules.

According to reports, facing the future, this method is expected to move from urban areas to the whole city and province, carry out cross-regional comparison and mutual recognition of calibers in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and gradually extend to the industry and enterprise levels, promoting word elements to become new production factors that can be produced, measurable, tradable and manageable.