Aerospace Products Assembly and Testing Workers

How to become an Aircraft Systems Installer

Official Chinese title (2022 occupational classification): 飞机系统安装调试工

Also called: Aircraft Landing Gear, Pneumatics and Hydraulics Installer, Aircraft Fuel and Power Systems Installer, Aircraft Flight Control Systems Installer, Aircraft Autopilot Test Technician, Aircraft Oxygen Systems Technician, Flight Test Equipment Installer, Aircraft Instrument and Electrical Systems Technician, Aircraft Radio and Radar Systems Technician, Aircraft Mission Systems Technician, Aircraft Environmental Control, Survival and Interior Systems Technician

Uses tools, tooling and equipment to install, adjust and test the many systems on an aircraft, such as flight controls, fuel and power, oxygen, environmental control and survival gear, pneumatics and hydraulics, radio and radar, instruments and electrics, and mission systems.

Main tasks

Checking, counting and wiping clean parts, standard parts, finished items and fittings
Drawing installation sketches of aircraft systems
Installing each system with tools, tooling and equipment, including power and fuel, flight controls, landing gear, hydraulics, oxygen, environmental control, survival, emergency, interior, autopilot, instruments and electrics, mission and radio and radar systems
Testing each system on the aircraft
Installing and testing flight test instrumentation

Ways in

Vocational majors: Higher vocational college (高职专科) major: Aircraft Maintenance Technology (460607). Vocational major 460607 Aircraft Maintenance Technology (飞行器维修技术), 3 years. The Ministry of Education's 2022 major profiles list this occupation among those the major prepares students for (职业面向). Example certificates: Aircraft Riveting and Assembly; Aircraft Mechanical Systems Assembly.

Pay · AI and this job

Median pay in China: CN¥80,500 a year (2025).
Middle half: CN¥56,100 to CN¥119,300. One in ten earn less than CN¥46,300 and one in ten more than CN¥151,200.
This is the figure for the mid group Railway, Ship and Aerospace Equipment Manufacturing Workers, not for this job alone.
National figure: wage prices of enterprise employees from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS) enterprise pay survey. The public sector and the self-employed are not covered.
Guangzhou only: median CN¥116,955 a year (2025), middle half CN¥60,272 to CN¥148,272.
This is the figure for the mid group Railway, Ship and Aerospace Equipment Manufacturing Workers, not for this job alone.
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Who does this work

The census group Railway, Ship and Aerospace Equipment Manufacturing Workers holds 0.08% of everyone employed in China; 24.3% of its workers are women (2020 Census).
38.4% are under 35, 54% are 35 to 54 and 7.6% are 55 or older. The middle age band is 35 to 39.
Census figures for the whole mid group (2020 long-form sample), not for this job alone.

Questions people ask

How do I become an Aircraft Systems Installer?

Ways in include: Higher vocational college (高职专科) major: Aircraft Maintenance Technology (460607).

How much does an Aircraft Systems Installer earn in China?

Across China, the median pay of enterprise employees is CN¥80,500 a year (Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS), 2025). The public sector and the self-employed are not covered. It is the figure for the mid group Railway, Ship and Aerospace Equipment Manufacturing Workers. In Guangzhou alone it is CN¥116,955 a year (2025).

Will AI change the work of an Aircraft Systems Installer?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS): 2025 enterprise pay survey information: wage prices of enterprise employees by occupation mid group, and digital occupations (P10 to P90 annual CNY) (2025 (published 2026-07-08)), retrieved 5 October 2026
Guangzhou Human Resources and Social Security Bureau: Guangzhou 2025 labour market wage prices (P10 to P90 annual CNY by occupation) (2025 (enterprise pay survey)), retrieved 4 October 2026
National Bureau of Statistics of China: China Population Census Yearbook 2020, long-form tables 4-6 and 4-7 (employed by occupation mid group, sex, age) (2020 Census long form (10% sample)), retrieved 4 October 2026
International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Sources: Occupational Classification of the People's Republic of China (2022 edition, public consultation draft), Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, State Administration for Market Regulation and National Bureau of Statistics; Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, 2025 enterprise pay survey information; Guangzhou Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, 2025 labour market wage prices; National Bureau of Statistics of China (www.stats.gov.cn), 2020 Population Census yearbook; Ministry of Education, vocational education major profiles (2022 revision) and undergraduate major catalogue (2025); Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, national vocational qualifications catalogue (2021); O*NET interest scores (CC BY 4.0); ILO global generative AI exposure index (CC BY 4.0). Figures processed by Peernovo. English text, translations and the matching of occupations to ISCO-08, majors, degree fields and qualifications by Peernovo.

Descriptions and tasks are Peernovo's own words, written from the facts in the Occupational Classification of the People's Republic of China (2022 edition). Job titles and work types are the classification's own.

Updated 5 October 2026