China's State Council Issues "15th Five-Year" Plan to Boost AI-Empowered Employment
2026-06-22 17:17
Favorite

en.Wedoany.com Reported - China's State Council recently issued the "15th Five-Year Plan for Implementing the Employment Priority Strategy," outlining nine key tasks and 32 specific measures to promote high-quality and full employment. The plan specifies that during the "15th Five-Year" period, overall employment will remain stable, new progress will be made in achieving high-quality and full employment, with more abundant job opportunities, a fairer employment environment, an optimized employment structure, more efficient job matching, and more harmonious labor relations.

An official from the National Development and Reform Commission explained that the supporting conditions and fundamental trends for China's long-term economic growth remain unchanged, with institutional advantages, the advantages of a super-large market, a complete industrial system, and abundant talent resources becoming more prominent. However, employment work still faces prominent contradictions and problems, with persistent pressure to stabilize employment and ongoing structural employment conflicts.

The plan emphasizes strengthening the employment priority orientation in macroeconomic regulation, enhancing coordination between industry and employment, accelerating the shaping of modern human resources, and expanding channels for college graduates and other young people to pursue careers and develop skills. In adapting to the development of artificial intelligence, the plan calls for in-depth implementation of the "AI+" action, promoting the creation of more AI application scenario innovations and entrepreneurial projects from achievements, exploring new forms of human-machine collaborative work, strengthening AI's employment creation effect, empowering employment policies and services with AI, actively leveraging the dividends of AI development, and better safeguarding employment and improving people's livelihoods.

To tap into the employment absorption potential of emerging fields, the plan proposes developing new quality productive forces according to local conditions, cultivating and expanding emerging industries, focusing on building a number of new pillar industries, laying out future industries, and constructing a full-chain cultivation system for future industries. At the same time, it aims to accelerate the development of strategic emerging industry clusters, foster new business forms and models, create professional positions in technology research and development and engineering applications, cultivate outstanding engineers, industry-leading talents, and cross-disciplinary composite talents, and vigorously develop new occupations and new positions.

An official from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security stated that they will improve the employment work system featuring systematic integration, coordinated linkage, digital empowerment, scientific management, and legal guarantees, fostering a positive atmosphere where the government, enterprises, and society all prioritize and support employment.

This article is compiled by Wedoany. All AI citations must indicate the source as "Wedoany". If there is any infringement or other issues, please notify us promptly, and we will modify or delete it accordingly. Email: news@wedoany.com