The Council for State Affairs sets out six areas: job creation potential, employment-friendly adoption, training, social protection and early warning.
On 23 October, the General Bureau of the Chinese State Council issued guidelines on adapting employment to AI's progress. The text sets out 18 tasks divided into six areas: exploiting AI's job creation potential, making its adoption more employment-friendly, strengthening workers' digital skills, improving employment services, consolidating social protection and monitoring risks.
Stop job deletions
The authorities are calling for the mitigation of job losses caused by AI applications and the creation of a job risk assessment mechanism related to their deployment. The document also provides for better protection of workers' rights in human-machine collaboration, wider social security coverage for people in flexible employment, adjustment of income distribution, and greater support for employees undergoing retraining. New AI-related trades need to be recognized and SMEs helped maintain their workforce.
According to official figures provided by Xinhua, the Chinese AI industry weighed more than 1,200 billion yuan in 2025, with more than 6,200 companies, and more than 30% of industrialists with at least 20 million yuan of turnover had adopted AI at the end of 2025.
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