On August 21, Qingdao Pilot Free‑Trade Zone signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Inspur Cloud Information Technology Co., Ltd. The two sides will carry out in‑depth collaboration in cutting‑edge tracks such as cross‑border data flow, “data‑processing‑inbound”, computing‑power going‑global, and large‑model service going‑global.

Qingdao is the only city in northern China boasting landing points for international submarine cables and dual‑hub major digital infrastructure for international telecommunication service entry‑exit bureaus. It is China’s core data gateway providing direct access to Northeast Asia and North America.

As a national‑level pilot platform for opening‑up, Qingdao Pilot Free‑Trade Zone enjoys the institutional advantages of piloting reforms within the pilot free‑trade experimental zone. It can conduct institutional innovation and safety stress tests for cross‑border data, delivering institutional conditions and industrial space for the roll‑out of new digital business forms. As a full‑scenario operator of smart systems, Inspur Group possesses full‑stack technical capabilities for the digital industry, practical experience from cross‑border pilot projects and global overseas‑going channels. Its technical capacity can support various application scenarios and business workflows for cross‑border data flow.

Through this in‑depth collaboration, the two parties will build North China’s first cross‑border Token Factory. It will provide full‑stack computing‑power infrastructure, large‑model capabilities and security compliance capabilities, and build a token‑element service platform based on trusted data space. It will realize unified orchestration of heterogeneous computing power, centralized access for diverse large‑models, and standardized metering and pricing of token‑elements. It guarantees the end‑to‑end closed‑loop and secure, stable overseas deployment of token‑elements, substantially lowering the access barriers for overseas customers, local enterprises expanding overseas, and OPC individual creators. A complete business closed‑loop of “computing‑power invocation — token‑element billing — cross‑border settlement — multi‑party ecological revenue sharing” will be established to deliver standardized, low‑cost, high‑compliance computing‑power and token‑element services for diverse cross‑border AI service providers.

Meanwhile, leveraging Inspur Hong Kong Smart Cloud’s international Token general platform, it will fully support the development of Token overseas‑going businesses in the free‑trade zone.

Moving forward, based on the functional and policy strengths of Qingdao Pilot Free‑Trade Zone, both parties will jointly foster a new high ground for AI‑driven manufacturing transformation across the province, cultivate distinctive business forms that integrate goods trade and digital trade, and make fresh contributions to expanding China’s opening‑up of the service sector.