How to become a Land Rehabilitation and Ecological Restoration Engineer
Official Chinese title (2022 occupational classification): 土地整治与生态修复工程技术人员
Surveys, plans and designs land consolidation and ecological restoration projects, monitors them, and oversees and guides the works.
Main tasks
- Researching and deciding where consolidation and restoration projects should happen and marking out their extent and boundaries
- Surveying the baseline condition, problems, quality, pattern and ownership of the area to be restored
- Researching and writing ecological protection and restoration plans for land and sea areas, marking out ecological safety boundaries and proposing control rules
- Analysing the limits on how land can be used and writing feasibility reports
- Designing land levelling, irrigation and drainage, farm roads and ecological protection works, and guiding construction
- Drawing up plans for consolidation, restoration and ecological landscape building and guiding how they are carried out
- Designing changes to land ownership, preparing adjustment plans and registering ownership changes
- Overseeing project funds, quality, upkeep and operation
- Assessing the performance and results of consolidation and restoration projects
Ways in
- University: Architecture & Built Environment degrees, Offered by 52 universities in China Related undergraduate subject classes in the Ministry of Education catalogue (2025): Architecture (0828); majors such as Architecture, Urban and Rural Planning, Landscape Architecture, Historic Building Conservation Engineering, Human Settlements Science and Technology, Urban Design. Matched to the occupation by Peernovo.
- University: Business & Commerce degrees, Offered by 105 universities in China Related undergraduate subject classes in the Ministry of Education catalogue (2025): Public Administration (1204); majors such as Public Service Administration, Administrative Management, Labour and Social Security, Land Resource Management, Urban Management, Customs Management. Matched to the occupation by Peernovo.
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¥157,914 a year (2025), middle half CN¥119,080 to CN¥224,295.
- This is the figure for the minor group Territorial Spatial Planning and Ecological Restoration Engineers and Technicians, 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 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.
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Questions people ask
How do I become a Land Rehabilitation and Ecological Restoration Engineer?
Ways in include: Architecture & Built Environment degrees; Business & Commerce degrees.
How much does a Land Rehabilitation and Ecological Restoration Engineer 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¥157,914 a year (2025).
Will AI change the work of a Land Rehabilitation and Ecological Restoration Engineer?
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
- Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, State Administration for Market Regulation, National Bureau of Statistics: Occupational Classification of the People's Republic of China, 2022 edition (public consultation draft) (2022 public consultation draft (1,636 occupations; final edition 1,639)), 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