Information and Communications Network Maintenance Workers Digital occupation

How to become a Radio Spectrum Monitoring Technician

Official Chinese title (2022 occupational classification): 无线电监测与设备运维员

Also called: Radio Monitoring Officer

Monitors radio signals, tests and maintains monitoring equipment and operates radio stations.

Main tasks

Measuring the electromagnetic environment and radiation around radio stations and electrical equipment, and the electromagnetic background noise of cities
Monitoring and checking that approved stations' transmissions meet technical requirements
Monitoring reserved frequencies and frequencies used by important organisations and major events
Monitoring and analysing interference, finding and removing its source, and monitoring and dealing with stations used against the rules or the law
Testing the function and performance of monitoring equipment hardware and software modules and whole systems and suggesting improvements
Maintaining monitoring and testing equipment or systems and fixing faults
Supporting the installation, removal, upgrading, modification and fault finding of monitoring and testing equipment
Operating radio stations and keeping logs
Carrying out type approval tests on radio transmitters and issuing test reports

Ways in

Vocational majors: Higher vocational college (高职专科) major: Computer Network Technology (510202). Vocational major 510202 Computer Network Technology (计算机网络技术), 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: Computer Technology and Software Professional Qualification; Network System Construction and Maintenance; Web Front End Development; Cloud Computing Platform Operation and Development; Network Security Operations and Maintenance; WPS Office Applications.

Pay · AI and this job

Median pay in China: CN¥96,000 a year (2025).
Middle half: CN¥64,300 to CN¥153,500. One in ten earn less than CN¥45,600 and one in ten more than CN¥236,700.
This is the figure for the mid group Information Transmission, Software and IT Services 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¥94,627 a year (2025), middle half CN¥64,000 to CN¥155,646.
This is the figure for the minor group Information and Communications Network Maintenance 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 Information Transmission, Software and IT Services Workers holds 0.84% of everyone employed in China; 30% of its workers are women (2020 Census).
69.2% are under 35, 29.3% are 35 to 54 and 1.5% are 55 or older. The middle age band is 30 to 34.
Census figures for the whole mid group (2020 long-form sample), not for this job alone.

Questions people ask

How do I become a Radio Spectrum Monitoring Technician?

Ways in include: Higher vocational college (高职专科) major: Computer Network Technology (510202).

How much does a Radio Spectrum Monitoring Technician earn in China?

Across China, the median pay of enterprise employees is CN¥96,000 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 Information Transmission, Software and IT Services Workers. In Guangzhou alone it is CN¥94,627 a year (2025).

Will AI change the work of a Radio Spectrum Monitoring Technician?

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