China's State Council Announces 5-Year Survey System to Continuously Track AI's Impact on Jobs, Signaling Beijing's Deepening Concern Over Worker Displacement

China's State Council announced it will research and establish a national survey system to track how artificial intelligence is creating and displacing jobs over the next five years, including continuous impact analysis — the most explicit government acknowledgment yet of Beijing's concern about AI-driven displacement at scale. The initiative builds on earlier Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security guidance and follows China's State Trade Union newspaper warning that 70 million workers face AI displacement risk. No specific worker-protection interventions were named in the announcement.