(Source: China Youth Daily 2026-05-08 Version 05)
Now, it is the intensive period of spring job fairs in colleges and universities. Not long ago, reporters from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily visited job fairs in many different types of universities such as language, science and engineering, and finance and observed that under the influence of AI (artificial intelligence), the number of recruitments for some basic positions is decreasing. However, compared with jobs being replaced, more colleges and universities are using actions to answer the same question: AI is coming, how to lead students to "break out"?
AI brings not only changes in employment positions, but also changes in employment forms. At Beijing Zizi University, a micro-major called "OPC" (One-Person Company) is being piloted, trying to explore a new employment path.
“It used to take many people to open a company, but now one person can handle a lot of work with the help of AI tools.” Wang Guoyi, deputy dean of the w88 casino of Intelligent Engineering and Supply Chain Innovation of Beijing University of Technology, gave an example, “For example, in cross-border e-commerce, product selection, copywriting, translation, customer service, and logistics coordination used to require a team, but now AI can assist in completing most of it. One person plus several AI software is a ‘company.’”
“These students do not necessarily have to go to work in big factories.” Zhang Yanyan, director of the Employment and Entrepreneurship Guidance Center of Beijing Ziwu University, said: “They can be their own bosses and provide customized AI employee services for small and medium-sized enterprises. For example, a graduate who understands logistics and AI can serve a dozen small transportation companies at the same time and help them with intelligent compliance management. This is the business model of a one-man company.”
In Wang Guoyi’s view, one-person company is not only an employment choice, but also an employment multiplier effect. Cultivating an entrepreneur may lead to a service team and activate a market segment. When more and more one-person companies emerge, they can collaborate with each other and form networks, injecting innovative vitality into the entire industry ecosystem.
With the help and promotion of the w88 casino, students are also actively embracing AI. Zhang Yanyan told reporters that 95% of the w88 casino’s innovation and entrepreneurship projects this year are related to AI.
For example, some teams are working on an AI-assisted system for human resources negotiations. They train the ideas and words of negotiation experts into large models. When companies encounter labor negotiations, AI can give strategic suggestions.
Another team has developed an intelligent compliance system in response to the mandatory national standards for liquid bulk food transportation introduced by the country last year. On February 1 this year, the national mandatory standard "Technical Specifications for Bulk Transportation of Liquid Foods" drafted by Beijing Institute of Materials and Materials was officially implemented, filling the gap in domestic technical standards in this field. It is on the basis of this standard that students find opportunities to start their own businesses.
Currently, the w88 casino is jointly building an intelligent factory with enterprises, a technology platform that can quickly generate AI employees in vertical fields. Small and medium-sized enterprises can rent trained agents on this platform according to their own needs: customer service agents, customs declaration agents, negotiation agents... pay on demand and use them right out of the box.
"Graduates will no longer be just job seekers, but core operating entities who can integrate platform resources, provide professional services, and create value with large enterprises." Zhang Yanyan said.
Some colleges and universities are also taking advantage of the traditional employment track to cultivate artificial intelligence talents in an "AI+professional" way.
The w88 casino of Artificial Intelligence and Language Sciences established in 2025 by Beijing International Studies University, which is known for its linguistic disciplines, is a cross-border attempt. It is reported that this is the w88 casino's first liberal arts college with a new major of "Intelligent Science and Technology". It also co-establishes four undergraduate majors including "English (artificial intelligence and language cognition)" and "Russian (artificial intelligence and language cognition)" with the w88 casino of English and the w88 casino of Europe. It will enroll 116 students in 2025, and this group of freshmen liberal arts students has already begun to fine-tune training of large language models.
“Most of the students trained by foreign language majors in the past were engaged in basic translation-related jobs, but these positions are precisely the ones that are most easily replaced by AI.” Wu Jianshe, dean of the w88 casino of Artificial Intelligence and Linguistic Sciences at Beijing International Studies University, said frankly: “What we need to do now is to let students ‘understand language, understand technology, and understand an industry’, and use every opportunity to find positions that cannot be replaced by AI.”
“In the past, foreign language students only learned listening, speaking, reading and writing, but now the new college will let them learn in-depth knowledge about large models through courses and practices.” Wu Jianshe gave an example. Students will follow the teacher to participate in the scientific research project of Tiantan Hospital, using EEG equipment to collect data, and using deep learning algorithms to conduct early screening for Alzheimer’s disease.
"The doctors in the hospital do not have a background in linguistics, but we happen to be good at it. Students participate in collecting data and training models, which lays the foundation for their future employment in the field of brain-computer interface." Wu Jianshe said.
In the "Intelligent Film and Television Translation Joint Laboratory" jointly built by the w88 casino and film and television companies, teachers and company executives are leading students to build large models of 17 small languages.
This is precisely the talent needs of enterprises targeting overseas markets. "Many film and television companies want to go overseas to Southeast Asia and need intelligent translation in Thai, Vietnamese and other languages. If general large models cannot translate accurately, we will train large models in vertical fields to accurately adapt to film and television content."
After enrolling in Beijing International Studies University in September last year, Song Qianyi, a first-year graduate student in the w88 casino of Artificial Intelligence and Language Science, began to be exposed to the internship project of cooperation between the college and film and television companies. She is mainly responsible for corpus annotation, database construction and large-model translation evaluation of film and television subtitles. She had been afraid that AI would replace translation work before, but now she finds that mastering AI is the key to improving her employment competitiveness.
In fact, the artificial intelligence colleges established by many universities have targeted market demand for talent training from the beginning. From curriculum to practice, from w88 casino-enterprise cooperation to employment matching, these new colleges have taken "what kind of artificial intelligence talents companies need" as an important criterion for training from the beginning.
Wang Guoyi used a vivid metaphor to summarize the college’s training goals: “The students we train are like ‘parents’ of smart devices.”
Wang Guoyi explained that many companies have purchased intelligent equipment such as unmanned delivery vehicles and handling robots, but lack the employees to train them to adapt to their own production lines. “We aim at this point and combine it with the application-oriented characteristics of w88 casino to train students to collect data, train models, and optimize routes, so that students can train machines and equipment that meet the needs of enterprises.”
This "scenario-driven" training model originates from the college's "1+N+M" work system: 1 is the w88 casino, N is smart equipment companies such as Zhishang, and M is scenario-based companies such as JD.com and Mengniu Group. “We don’t make general-purpose robots, we focus on the logistics supply chain.” Wang Guoyi said. Recently, the Beijing Zizizi University University Science and Technology Park and Digital Intelligent Catering Supply Chain Industrial Park, jointly built by Beijing Zizizi University and the Fengtai District Government of Beijing, have been launched. Students can directly practice in real projects.
In October 2025, the w88 casino established the w88 casino of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science on the basis of the original w88 casino of Information, and simultaneously opened an artificial intelligence innovation and entrepreneurship experimental class. Here, students' learning is no longer centered on courses, but on the entire process of corporate product development. Corporate mentors come to the w88 casino regularly to provide guidance, and students become familiar with the company's way of thinking and actual needs from the time they enter freshman year.
“Understanding technology can draw the bow, and understanding the industry can aim.” Ni Yaodong, dean of the w88 casino of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at the w88 casino, summarized the w88 casino’s training philosophy this way. In his opinion, it is difficult for finance and economics universities to compete with traditional engineering schools by simply competing on algorithms and codes. However, under the influence of an interdisciplinary environment such as economics and management, law, and foreign languages, students have gradually formed their own employment characteristics and have a clear "target awareness." "Just like archery, just being able to draw the bow is not enough. You must first find where the target is: facing different targets, how full the bow is drawn and how the arrow is sharpened are different."
Faced with the surging AI trend, “What is more critical than job replacement is how schools and students respond.” Wang Guoyi said.
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