AI Job Risk in China
Artificial intelligence will transform this labor market in different ways across industries.
Jobs involving repetitive tasks are more likely to be automated, while professions requiring human interaction and physical skills remain more resilient.
What to keep in mind first
China is a country where AI deployment can scale quickly and industrial capacity is large, so automation pressure is often visible earlier and more broadly than in many markets. Even so, the strongest reading still comes from asking where scale helps most and where human judgment remains hard to compress.
Average AI Risk
44.36 / 100
Jobs Analyzed
204
How to read this page in practice
The notes below explain how to interpret the country score, what kinds of sector mix usually raise or lower it, and what this comparison can and cannot tell you.
How to Read This Country
China is easiest to read by asking how scale changes the way automation pressure appears across industries and roles. Large manufacturing capacity, platform-driven services, and extensive digital infrastructure make some transitions move quickly, but the country is still too varied to read through a single idea of efficiency alone.
What Drives the Score
China combines large-scale manufacturing, logistics, platforms, and service operations with wide regional and organizational variation. AI moves fastest where data, repetition, and coordinated systems are already strong, and more slowly where work depends on local interpretation, exception handling, or practical adjustment.
What Holds Up Better
The most durable roles are those that stay valuable even inside highly scaled systems. When standards are strong, the remaining human value often sits in supervision, exception management, coordination, and judgment about when the model no longer fits the situation.
What This Page Does Not Claim
A country-level score is useful for direction, but it does not erase the gap between heavily standardized sectors and more locally variable work. Read China's page with scale in mind, but do not assume that scale makes every role move the same way.
Jobs Most At Risk from AI
This table is a current snapshot of the jobs that appear on the higher-risk side within this country profile. It is useful as a directional comparison, not as a permanent national ranking.
| Rank | Job | Risk Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Data Entry Clerk | 81 |
| 2 | Retail Cashier | 78 |
| 3 | Truck Driver | 77 |
| 4 | Bookkeeper | 75 |
| 5 | Accounting Clerk | 74 |
| 6 | Software Tester | 73 |
| 7 | Civil Drafter | 72 |
| 8 | Data Analyst | 72 |
| 9 | Insurance Underwriter | 72 |
| 10 | Taxi Driver | 71 |
| 11 | Bank Teller | 69 |
| 12 | System Administrator | 68 |
| 13 | Train Operator | 67 |
| 14 | Tax Preparer | 67 |
| 15 | QA Engineer | 65 |
| 16 | Surveying Technician | 64 |
| 17 | Mobile App Developer | 64 |
| 18 | Database Administrator | 63 |
| 19 | Software Engineer | 62 |
| 20 | Accountant | 62 |
Jobs Safest from AI
This table shows the jobs that currently appear on the lower-risk side within this country profile. Read it as a structural comparison of work, not as a guarantee that these roles will stay unchanged.
| Rank | Job | Risk Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Surgeon | 10 |
| 2 | Plumber | 11 |
| 3 | Therapist | 11 |
| 4 | Electrician | 12 |
| 5 | Psychologist | 12 |
| 6 | Paramedic | 14 |
| 7 | Nurse | 15 |
| 8 | Dentist | 15 |
| 9 | School Counselor | 16 |
| 10 | Psychiatrist | 16 |
| 11 | Veterinarian | 17 |
| 12 | Professor | 18 |
| 13 | Doctor | 18 |
| 14 | Air Traffic Controller | 20 |
| 15 | Social Worker | 20 |
| 16 | Elevator Technician | 21 |
| 17 | Aircraft Mechanic | 22 |
| 18 | Teacher | 22 |
| 19 | Machine Learning Engineer | 23 |
| 20 | Museum Curator | 24 |
Industry Risk
This table compares the industries that shape the country score today. It is most useful for seeing which parts of the economy pull the average up or down.
| Industry | Industry Average Risk Score |
|---|---|
| Retail | 61.5 |
| Finance | 58.67 |
| Technology | 51.13 |
| Transportation | 45.3 |
| Agriculture | 42.25 |
| Manufacturing | 40.88 |
| Energy | 37.33 |
| Construction | 34.25 |
| Education | 31.58 |
| Healthcare | 26.13 |