--- title: "The Artificial Intelligence ETF E Fund rose over 1% during the session, as demand for AI computing power continues to surge, and the artificial intelligence industry enters a period of rapid growth" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/281596501.md" description: "The E Fund Artificial Intelligence ETF (159819) rose over 1% during the session, while the CSI Artificial Intelligence Theme Index increased by 1.13%. As of April 2, E Fund's scale has grown by 6.543 billion yuan in the past year, with an increase of 1.182 billion shares in the last three months. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has launched a special action to lower the computing power threshold for small and medium-sized enterprises and promote flexible payment models. The demand for AI computing power has exploded, and domestic AI chip manufacturers are expected to accelerate their development. It is estimated that the market size of China's AI intelligent computing GPU will reach 171.22 billion yuan by 2025 and 1,033.34 billion yuan by 2029, with a compound annual growth rate of 56.7%" datetime: "2026-04-03T02:29:08.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/281596501.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/281596501.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/281596501.md) --- # The Artificial Intelligence ETF E Fund rose over 1% during the session, as demand for AI computing power continues to surge, and the artificial intelligence industry enters a period of rapid growth As of April 3, 2026, 10:03 AM, the China Securities Index for Artificial Intelligence (930713) surged by 1.13%, while the Artificial Intelligence ETF E Fund (159819) once rose over 1%, currently up by 0.97%, with a transaction volume of 77.7531 million yuan. As of April 2, the Artificial Intelligence ETF E Fund (159819) has seen a scale increase of 6.543 billion yuan over the past year, with a share increase of 1.182 billion shares in the last three months, achieving significant growth. In terms of news, on April 2, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released a special action plan to empower the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through inclusive computing power. By the end of 2028, the threshold for SMEs to access and use computing power will be significantly lowered. Flexible payment models such as "card time," "nuclear time," and token billing will be promoted. Innovative businesses such as "computing power banks" and "computing power supermarkets" will be explored. Local relevant departments are encouraged to subsidize "computing power vouchers," "storage vouchers," and "transportation vouchers" to SMEs that meet industrial guidance through SME platform special zones. China's large models are going international with tokens as the carrier, and the usage on the OpenRouter platform continues to grow. Currently, the daily token usage of the Doubao large model has surpassed 120 trillion, doubling in three months and increasing a thousandfold in two years. The number of enterprises that have accumulated token usage exceeding one trillion on the Volcano Engine has grown from 100 at the end of last year to 140. Zhongyuan Securities pointed out that the demand for AI computing power is exploding, and domestic AI chip manufacturers are expected to accelerate development. Domestic and foreign cloud vendors continue to increase capital expenditure in the AI field, and domestic intelligent computing centers are accelerating construction, driving the explosion of AI computing power demand. With the rapid growth of AI computing power scale, a greater demand for AI chips will emerge. According to Frost & Sullivan's forecast, the market size of China's AI intelligent GPU market is expected to reach 171.22 billion yuan by 2025 and 1,033.34 billion yuan by 2029, with a compound annual growth rate of 56.7% from 2025 to 2029. China's AI chip market is entering a golden development period characterized by technological upgrades, domestic substitution, and application expansion. Domestic AI chip manufacturers are expected to accelerate development, continuously break through technical barriers, speed up the process of self-controllable AI chips, and are likely to continue to increase market share. 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