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The salary of artificial intelligence (AI)-related job positions can reach up to 50,000 yuan ($6,912) per month at a large-scale job fair in Shanghai on Saturday, where nearly 1,000 companies participate, providing over 20,000 positions for college graduates and young job-seekers.
The job fair was held at Shanghai Mart Expo with 15 sections set up for employers from sectors including specialized and sophisticated small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), social organizations, electronic semiconductor industry, and automobile manufacturers.
As of the press time on Saturday, the job fair has received a total of 23,000 resumes, with 6,200 preliminary employment intentions reached, China News Service reported. More than 500 people have participated in on-site career guidance and policy consultations, and the live-streamed job fair has attracted over 50,000 views.
As Chinese rising pioneers in sci-tech innovation, such as DeepSeek and Unitree robots have recently garnered worldwide attention, companies in related sectors offered job candidates at the fair a wide range of options related to mechanics, electronics, software, algorithms with generous payments. Some AI related companies offered starting salaries as much as 30,000 yuan per month with the highest amounting to 50,000 yuan, China News Service reported.
The advancement of technology provides significant development opportunities for high-level technical talent, with their salaries also rising accordingly as the demand for them rapidly expands, Li Changan, a professor at the Academy of China Open Economy Studies at the University of International Business and Economics, told the Global Times on Sunday, noting that AI-related talent in China is still in short supply, therefore offering high salaries comes as no surprise.
According to Li, while some traditional manual and intellectual labor jobs may be replaced by AI, the technology is likely to create even more job opportunities. Among the new professions and job categories introduced by China’s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security last year, many were closely related to AI, such as generative AI application specialists, intelligent cloud-network operation and maintenance specialists, and intelligent manufacturing system operation and maintenance specialists.
As AI technology empowers various industries, the demand for related talent has surged, with salaries rising accordingly. Apart from Shanghai, job fairs held in other cities nationwide have focused on AI-related positions, with a high demand surging in Beijing, Hangzhou in East China’s Zhejiang Province and Shenzhen in South China’s Guangdong Province, China Central Television (CCTV) finance channel reported last week.
The report quoted a senior executive from an online recruitment platform as saying that the demand for AI-related positions and positions in technology, algorithms and engineering have increased by 13 percent this year. Algorithm engineers, even with minimal experience, now have a starting salary of around 35,000 yuan per month.
Relevant expertise and excellent technical skills remain the core requirements on technical talents demanded by the state-of-the-art companies. Therefore, several recruiters said that if a candidate’s resume includes internship experience, project work, research topics or participation in sci-tech competitions with keywords matching the company’s focused areas, they will be paid special attention. Moreover, some employers noted that suitable candidates for large-scale AI models, robotics and chips positions are in urgent need, the Paper reported on Saturday.
Multiple Chinese universities, including Peking University, Tsinghua University and Renmin University of China, have announced their enrollment expansion plans. Peking University will increase its undergraduate enrollment by 150 students in 2025, with the additional admissions focusing on areas of fundamental disciplines and emerging frontier fields urgently needed for national strategic development, according to Beijing News.
Meanwhile, Tsinghua University plans to increase its undergraduate enrollment by approximately 150 students in 2025, focusing on cultivating interdisciplinary talent in AI and other fields to better serve national strategic needs and societal development.