News Summary

• Chinese universities are cutting courses at scale.
• From 2021 to 2025, Chinese universities closed or paused 12,200 undergraduate programmes and launched roughly 10,200 fresh programmes.
• The restructuring affected over 30% of undergraduate programmes nationwide, and arts, humanities and language courses absorbed the heaviest cuts.
• New roles such as prompt engineer and AI animator are emerging in film and animation, where AI is also creating fresh openings.
• For students, traditional qualifications may increasingly need technical skills that allow them to work alongside automated creative systems.