How to become a Mediator
Official Chinese title (2022 occupational classification): 调解员
Also called: Employment Disputes Mediator
Works for a lawfully set up mediation body, handling people's mediation as well as industry and administrative mediation.
Main tasks
- Looking out for and spotting signs of conflicts and disputes
- Helping parties reach mediation agreements and settle disputes through persuasion, education and advice
- Running legal awareness campaigns
- Logging disputes, keeping mediation statistics, choosing cases to report and managing records
- Overseeing how settlement and mediation agreements are carried out
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 a Mediator?
Ways in include: Law & Justice degrees.
Will AI change the work of a Mediator?
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