[National Data Bureau: The market demand for word units shows explosive growth] On August 29, the 2026 China International Big Data Industry Expo is being held in Guiyang, Guizhou. Today, the person in charge of the National Data Administration said at the Digital Expo that the current large-scale models are accelerating their implementation in thousands of industries, driving the rapid increase in the number of Chinese word elements, and the market demand has shown explosive growth. Word elements are the smallest units for artificial intelligence to understand the world. The theme of this digital expo is "Word elements - a new path to release the value of data elements." Liu Liehong, director of the National Data Administration, said at a special exchange event on word elements that the stronger the comprehensive ability of the model, the higher the efficiency of word element production, and the better the logic, accuracy and quality of the output content. Word elements provide an important yardstick for the measurement, pricing, trading and settlement of artificial intelligence services. At present, the word element industry chain has gathered multiple entities such as computing power leasing companies, model manufacturers, data service providers, and professional technical service organizations. In practice, different types of "word element factories" have evolved.