Job seekers review recruitment information at a job fair in Huzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province, on March 2, 2026. Photo: VCG

Multiple Chinese localities have been carrying out recruitment events under the nationwide "Spring Breeze Action" campaign to boost post-holiday employment, while demand from sectors related to emerging industries witnesses a marked rise in demand for talent.

A total of 22,000 job fairs have been organized across the country so far this year, CCTV News reported on Monday, citing data from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.

These fairs have featured a combined 13 million job postings so far, with demand for labor being particularly strong in industries such as new energy, information technology, intelligent manufacturing and modern services, according to the report.

China's job market has entered a robust period as the nine-day Spring Festival holidays wrapped up on February 23, with areas related to new quality productive forces being the most active employers, according to a report from Zhaopin, an online recruitment platform in China, sent to the Global Times on Monday.

In the first week after the holidays, China's robotics industry saw a 31.3 percent year-on-year increase in job postings, ranking as the fastest-growing sector across the board, the report said. Next came the optoelectronics industry, new materials sector, and defense manufacturing, which registered annual growth rates ranging from 30.5 percent to 20.1 percent.

In the Xiong'an New Area in North China's Hebei Province, a key region advancing the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, more than 2,000 jobs were offered at an on-site job market on Monday, with more than 70 employers participating. Many of the companies seeking new recruits are from subsidiaries of central state-owned enterprises, according to a post on the area's official WeChat account.

A job seeker surnamed Wei with a college degree majoring in logistics management attended a Spring Breeze Action job fair in Zibo, East China's Shandong Province on February 24, the first working day after the Spring Festival holidays.

Wei described the job fair as consisting of a wide range of enterprises, covering biomedicine, manufacturing, education and training, services, electronic information and the internet, with many well-known local companies participating.

"I think it is quite helpful," he told the Global Times on Monday, noting that the job fair helped him sort out his opportunities, with up-to-date job-related policy briefings from the local human resources and labor inspection authorities, and a diversity of offerings that also catered to the needs of job seekers in difficulty, working mothers and veterans.

With various regions making every effort to help job seekers stabilize and secure employment, and Chinese high-tech companies gaining international recognition during the Spring Festival holidays, the country's employment situation is expected to be off a good start in 2026, an expert said.

Sun Chuanwang, a professor at Xiamen University, told the Global Times on Monday that judging from the situation, the 2026 spring job market is marked by a relatively ample supply of jobs, especially in emerging industries. This is a sign that China's industrial transformation and the development of new quality productive forces have borne fruit.
 
"These jobs will also likely be better paid than those in traditional sectors," Sun said.

The annual Central Economic Work Conference, held in December, stipulated that it is imperative to secure the steady development of employment, businesses, markets and expectations, getting the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30) off to a good start, according to the Xinhua News Agency.

To ensure the smooth transportation of labor for work resumption after the holidays, 150,000 people were transported through chartered services including buses, trains and planes across the country as of February 26, according to Xinhua.