Jobseekers talk with recruitment representatives at an artificial intelligence (AI) job fair held in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, on June 28, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]
The accelerating adoption of artificial intelligence is increasingly reshaping hiring trends and workplace dynamics, as companies race to recruit AI talent while workers scramble to adapt to the technology's growing influence, a recent report showed.
According to a 2026 spring recruitment report released by recruitment platform Maimai this month, job postings in China's new economy sectors rose 22.6 percent year-on-year in the first four months, while AI-related positions surged 8.7-fold during the same period.
The new economy sector refers to industries driven by technologies such as the internet, big data, cloud computing and AI, which give rise to new products, business models and formats.
The rapid rise of AI also drives broader changes in China's labor market, with more than 20 of the 72 new occupations identified over the past five years being directly related to AI, data from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security showed in March.
