Above the East Asia & Pacific median
China sits above the current regional median on average task exposure in the country-conditioned atlas release.
Country diagnostic
China
A guided country diagnostic on automation exposure, trade-facing intensity, and upper-middle-income scale.
China sits well above the current East Asia & Pacific median on average task exposure and leans clearly more toward substitution than augmentation. The strongest signals concentrate in tellers, billing, postal clerks, brokerage clerks, and other transaction-heavy routines, while a strong goods-facing automation proxy keeps the country from reading like a service-only case.
China is the first East Asia country diagnostic and a natural complement to the existing United States-China comparison. It shows how a large upper-middle-income economy can rank high on both the task layer and the goods-facing proxy without collapsing into a single manufacturing-only story.
What stands out
Headline takeaways
Substitution leans ahead of augmentation
The current country profile tilts more toward substitution than augmentation, while still remaining a descriptive measure of task exposure rather than realized adoption or labor-market displacement.
Transaction-heavy routines and goods exposure reinforce each other
The strongest signals sit in tellers, billing, postal clerks, brokerage clerks, and related transaction-heavy routines, while the goods-facing proxy keeps the overall story broader than a narrow administrative-services reading.
Country in context
Peer comparison
Peer set
Metric
Average task exposure
East Asia & Pacific peers plus the regional median. Average task exposure summarizes the country task bundle under the shared atlas framework.
What stands out
Occupations, industries, and skills
Top occupations
These are the occupations with the strongest modeled exposure signal after transporting tasks through the weighted SOC-to-ISCO bridge.
Technology profile
Technology channels and implementation
Technology channels
These shares describe the dominant technology channel across exposed tasks in the country bundle.
The current public bundle does not surface a stable technology-channel split for this country yet. Use the related comparison and the goods-facing view for the clearest structural read.