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Analysis

Assessing China’s AI Workforce

Regional, Military, and Surveillance Geographic Clusters

Dahlia Peterson,

Ngor Luong,

and Jacob Feldgoise

November 2023

Demand for talent is one of the core elements of technological competition between the United States and China. In this issue brief, we explore demand signals in China’s domestic AI workforce in two ways: geographically and within the defense and surveillance sectors. Our exploration of job postings from Spring 2021 finds that more than three-quarters of all AI job postings are concentrated in just three regions: the Yangtze River Delta region, the Pearl River Delta, and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area.

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