How to become a Confectionery and Chocolate Maker

Official Chinese title (2022 occupational classification): 糖果巧克力制造工

Also called: Sweet Mass Maker, Confectionery Shaping Worker, Chewing Gum Maker, Cocoa Bean Processor, Chocolate Moulder

Operates sugar dissolving, boiling, mixing, refining, cooling and shaping equipment to make sweets or chocolate from cocoa beans, sugar, maltose, glucose syrup and other ingredients.

Main tasks

• Preparing and adding ingredients to the recipe
• Dissolving sugar into syrup in dissolving pans
• Operating gum melters and mixers to melt and work gum base
• Boiling sugar at controlled temperatures in boiling pans
• Running mixers to whip and aerate, adding other ingredients to make sweet mass and cooling it
• Operating extruding, sheeting, rolling, cutting and shaping equipment to shape sweet mass
• Sorting, cleaning, roasting, cooling, cracking, winnowing and grinding cocoa beans by machine or by hand
• Mixing chocolate ingredients and refining them into liquid in conches
• Tempering and holding chocolate at temperature in tempering tanks
• Pouring chocolate into moulds and turning it out once cool and set
• Coating and polishing chocolate with special equipment
• Sorting and packing finished products

Pay · AI and this job

• Median pay in China: CN¥59,000 a year (2025).
• Middle half: CN¥44,400 to CN¥78,800. One in ten earn less than CN¥34,700 and one in ten more than CN¥104,900.
• This is the figure for the mid group Food and Beverage Production 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¥77,607 a year (2025), middle half CN¥58,500 to CN¥97,946.
• This is the figure for the mid group Food and Beverage Production 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 Food and Beverage Production Workers holds 0.44% of everyone employed in China; 47.4% of its workers are women (2020 Census).
• 36.1% are under 35, 52.9% are 35 to 54 and 11% are 55 or older. The middle age band is 40 to 44.
• Census figures for the whole mid group (2020 long-form sample), not for this job alone.

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Questions people ask

How much does a Confectionery and Chocolate Maker earn in China?

Across China, the median pay of enterprise employees is CN¥59,000 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 Food and Beverage Production Workers. In Guangzhou alone it is CN¥77,607 a year (2025).

Will AI change the work of a Confectionery and Chocolate Maker?

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