2025-05-08
29 分钟discussion keeps the world turning this is round table Move over white and blue collars.
China's green collar workforce is booming.
With 3.4 million eco workers and counting, the country is racing toward a sustainable future.
But what's behind the surge?
How is the country cultivating this growing wave of environmental professionals?
And could this approach become a global blueprint?
We are live from Beijing.
This is Roundtable.
I'm Steve.
And for today's show, I'm joined by Niu Honglin and Ding Hung.
First, on the program.
The workforce landscape is ever-evolving, it feels these days,
and a new category is rising, the green-collar worker.
These professionals employed in the environmental and sustainability sectors are driving China's ecological transformation.
Here's the proof.
By the end of 2024, China's environmental protection sector boasted over 3.4 million practitioners.
That is a testament to the country's ambitious push toward a greener future.
done it how have they cultivated such a vast and skilled talent pool well the answer lies in a strategic blend of policy vision targeted education and hands-on training positioning these workers at the forefront of the global sustainability movement uh let's get into it you know for me Dingheng and Niu Honglin,
green collar worker was a new term.
I had never heard of it before.