AI opens new employment windows

SHANGHAI — In a film and TV studio in Shanghai's Lingang New Area, Lu Guozong sits alone before a computer screen, with no heavy cameras, lighting crews, or bustling set assistants in sight.

Yet, with a few keystrokes on an artificial intelligence workflow platform, he turns a spark of imagination into a high-definition cinematic video with fluid camera movements. "AI is a productivity tool, but more importantly, it is a partner working alongside me," Lu said.

Lu is part of a growing wave of "AI content creators", one of the many new professions emerging as AI reshapes China's labor market. From humanoid robot "teachers" to "translators" bridging human language and machine code, these roles are redefining what it means to work in the world's second-largest economy.