AI wave reshaping nation's job market landscape

As more Chinese industry titans enter the realm of AI, their intensified scramble for talent by offering generous salary packages may prove the predictions by experts and industry insiders correct that AI is reshaping the domestic employment landscape over the spring recruitment season while also incubating more new job opportunities.

Alibaba started its spring internship hiring campaign in February by offering over 3,000 openings to fresh graduates, and nearly 50 percent of these internship openings are closely related to AI, such as in research and development and algorithms. Tencent launched its internship campaign in the same month with over 7,000 positions available to college students, and more than 60 percent of these positions focused on cutting-edge fields including AI, big data and cloud computing.

These companies' moves have epitomized China's intensified scramble for AI-focused talent after DeepSeek kicked off a national craze for AI earlier this spring. Meanwhile, jobseekers with a knowledge of or background in AI are also showing greater confidence in their prospects.