The General Office of the State Council issued guiding opinions, requiring efforts to mitigate the employment substitution impact of AI applications

General Office of the State Council: Actively enhance the positive effects of AI in creating jobs and effectively mitigate the employment substitution impact of AI applications

2026-10-23 17:17 IT Home - Haomiao

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IT Home, October 23 news: The General Office of the State Council today issued the "Opinions on Adapting to the Development of Artificial Intelligence Technology and Helping to Build an Employment-Friendly Development Model." Taking AI-enabled high-quality development as an opportunity, taking adapting to technological development to promote high-quality full employment as the goal, and taking building an employment-friendly development model as the direction, it actively enhances the positive effects of AI in creating jobs, empowering traditional positions, improving employment quality, and stimulating entrepreneurial vitality, effectively mitigates the employment substitution impact of AI applications, and strives to achieve inclusive development in which technological progress and industrial upgrading are coordinated with employment promotion and livelihood improvement.

IT Home notes that the Opinions propose creating new models of employment and entrepreneurship in the AI field. Give full play to the role of government investment funds such as the National Venture Capital Guidance Fund and the National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, and support the innovative development of enterprises in the AI field in a market-oriented manner. Build high-level AI open-source communities, deploy and implement a batch of high-quality open-source projects, and create an effect in which entrepreneurship drives employment. Implement the models of "scientific and technological achievements + entrepreneurship," "industrial development + entrepreneurship," "vocational skills + entrepreneurship," and "livelihood needs + entrepreneurship"; around entrepreneurial projects such as AI application scenario innovation and the transformation of technological achievements, implement entrepreneurship support policies and provide business incubation services.

Accelerate the development of new occupations in the AI field. Around the cultivation of AI scenarios and large-scale application, accelerate the development of new occupations and release new occupational standards, and expand demand for new occupations and new types of work such as digital management specialists, AI engineering technicians, and AI trainers. Encourage localities, in light of the needs of AI industry development, to add related professional title evaluation specialties and promptly carry out AI-related vocational skill level certification.

Tap the employment potential of AI in traditional fields. Give play to the role of AI in helping traditional industries transform and upgrade, guide the better implementation of human-machine collaboration models in the intelligent development of all factors of industry and the digital-intelligent transformation and upgrading of agriculture, and tap digital-intelligent employment opportunities in traditional fields. Accelerate the construction of new AI-driven service models, advance producer services by field toward specialization and the high end of the value chain, promote the high-quality, diversified, and convenient development of consumer services, expand new service consumption scenarios such as experiential consumption and personalized consumption, and expand the employment capacity of the service sector.

Mitigate the employment substitution impact of AI applications. Give play to the role of AI in improving the employment environment, raising occupational safety levels, and improving work quality and efficiency, and prioritize its promotion and application in positions with labor shortages and high environmental risks. Steadily and prudently grasp the scope, intensity, and pace of AI application in labor-intensive industries, and minimize the impact on workers. Encourage enterprises to explore the establishment of an unemployment buffer period system, and in the process of large-scale promotion and application of AI, inform affected workers in advance and provide support for transition and job reassignment.

Strengthen research on the employment impact of AI applications. Carry out special surveys on the employment impact of AI applications, and continuously track situations such as AI application penetration, job creation and substitution, and changes in skill demand. Relying on existing resources such as universities and research institutions, establish a batch of AI employment research centers. Well implement research projects such as those of the National Social Science Fund, and conduct forward-looking research on the impact of AI technology development on employment and income distribution.

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Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Adapting to the Development of Artificial Intelligence Technology and Helping to Build an Employment-Friendly Development Model

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