How to become an Arbitrator
Official Chinese title (2022 occupational classification): 仲裁员
Is appointed by an arbitration commission and chosen by the parties or named by the commission's chair, hearing contract disputes and other property disputes, organising mediation or giving final awards.
Main tasks
- Hearing cases alone or as one of three on a tribunal once chosen or named, and giving final awards in civil and commercial cases
- Bringing both sides together for mediation first and helping them reach agreement
- Organising investigation and evidence gathering as cases need, and arranging expert opinions, valuations and inspections
- Preparing and serving mediation agreements or awards
Ways in
- University: Law & Justice degrees, Offered by 91 universities in China Related undergraduate subject classes in the Ministry of Education catalogue (2025): Law (0301); majors such as Law, Intellectual Property, Prison Science, Credit Risk Management and Legal Prevention, International Economic and Trade Rules, Judicial Police Science. Matched to the occupation by Peernovo.
AI and this job
- Generative AI could change some tasks in this job, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How do I become an Arbitrator?
Ways in include: Law & Justice degrees.
Will AI change the work of an Arbitrator?
Generative AI could change some tasks in this job, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- 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