How to become a Certification and Accreditation Auditor

Official Chinese title (2022 occupational classification): 质量认证认可工程技术人员

Carries out specialist technical assessments of quality management systems, products, services and laboratories.

Main tasks

• Assessing and checking the competence of certification bodies, testing bodies and laboratories
• Assessing the competence of certification, audit and laboratory testing staff
• Assessing whether a client's management systems, products and services meet the standard

Ways in

• University: Business & Commerce degrees, Offered by 105 universities in China Related undergraduate subject classes in the Ministry of Education catalogue (2025): Management Science and Engineering (1201); majors such as Management Science, Information Management and Information Systems, Engineering Management, Real Estate Development and Management, Construction Cost Engineering, Confidentiality Management. Matched to the occupation by Peernovo.
• University: Engineering degrees, Offered by 105 universities in China Related undergraduate subject classes in the Ministry of Education catalogue (2025): Instrumentation (0803); Materials Science and Engineering (0804); majors such as Materials Science and Engineering, Inorganic Non-metallic Materials Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology and Instruments, Materials Physics, Materials Chemistry, Metallurgical Engineering. Matched to the occupation by Peernovo.
• Vocational majors: Higher vocational college (高职专科) major: Building Materials Testing Technology (430704). Vocational major 430704 Building Materials Testing Technology (建筑材料检测技术), 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: Civil Engineering Concrete Materials Testing; Precast Concrete Component Quality Inspection.; Higher vocational college (高职专科) major: Food Quality and Safety (490102). Vocational major 490102 Food Quality and Safety (食品质量与安全), 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: Certification Personnel Qualification; Food Compliance Management; Grain and Agricultural Food Safety Assessment; Rapid Testing of Edible Foods.; Higher vocational college (高职专科) major: Food Testing and Inspection Technology (490104). Vocational major 490104 Food Testing and Inspection Technology (食品检验检测技术), 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: Food Inspection Management; Grain and Agricultural Food Safety Assessment.
• National qualification: National professional qualification: Certification Personnel Qualification. A national qualification that shows your level; it is not required to work. Listed in the national vocational qualifications catalogue (国家职业资格目录, 2021) as Certification Personnel Qualification (认证人员职业资格), run by State Administration for Market Regulation. Peernovo links it to this occupation.

Pay · AI and this job

• Median pay in China: CN¥79,500 a year (2025).
• Middle half: CN¥55,200 to CN¥123,700. One in ten earn less than CN¥42,000 and one in ten more than CN¥192,300.
• This is the figure for the mid group Engineering and Technical Personnel, 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¥118,169 a year (2025), middle half CN¥108,889 to CN¥160,000.
• Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Who does this work

• The census group Engineering and Technical Personnel holds 2.35% of everyone employed in China; 17.1% of its workers are women (2020 Census).
• 48.9% are under 35, 45.1% are 35 to 54 and 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.

Related jobs

• Standards Engineer
• Metrology Engineer
• Quality Engineer
• Reliability Engineer

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Questions people ask

How do I become a Certification and Accreditation Auditor?

Ways in include: Business & Commerce degrees; Engineering degrees; Higher vocational college (高职专科) major: Building Materials Testing Technology (430704); Higher vocational college (高职专科) major: Food Quality and Safety (490102).

How much does a Certification and Accreditation Auditor earn in China?

Across China, the median pay of enterprise employees is CN¥79,500 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 Engineering and Technical Personnel. In Guangzhou alone it is CN¥118,169 a year (2025).

Will AI change the work of a Certification and Accreditation Auditor?

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

Sources

• 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
• 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
• 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