How to become an Aquatic Plant Nursery Worker
Official Chinese title (2022 occupational classification): 水生植物苗种培育工
Also called: Seaweed Nursery Worker, Freshwater Aquatic Plant Nursery Worker
Raises parent stock of seaweeds and higher aquatic plants and propagates seedlings with nursery beds, ponds and other facilities.
Main tasks
- Checking, repairing and disinfecting nursery facilities, equipment and tools and making seed collectors
- Choosing and conditioning parent plants and controlling temperature and light to help spores or buds develop
- Triggering spore release and settlement and sowing or planting seedlings
- Mixing and applying fertiliser or nutrient solution and adjusting water quality
- Managing nursery beds, watching growth, clearing weeds and unwanted algae and controlling pests and diseases
- Transplanting seedlings, checking, counting and packing them, holding and transporting them
Ways in
- Vocational majors: Higher vocational college (高职专科) major: Aquaculture Technology (410401). Vocational major 410401 Aquaculture Technology (水产养殖技术), 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: Licensed Veterinarian.
AI and this job
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Who does this work
- The census group Fishery Production Workers holds 0.37% of everyone employed in China; 26% of its workers are women (2020 Census).
- 15.7% are under 35, 53.5% are 35 to 54 and 30.8% are 55 or older. The middle age band is 45 to 49.
- Census figures for the whole mid group (2020 long-form sample), not for this job alone.
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Questions people ask
How do I become an Aquatic Plant Nursery Worker?
Ways in include: Higher vocational college (高职专科) major: Aquaculture Technology (410401).
Will AI change the work of an Aquatic Plant Nursery Worker?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- 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 4 October 2026