China’s Export Control Taskforce Adds Most Headcount Since 2022
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce building in Beijing.
Photographer: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg
China’s Commerce Ministry is on its biggest public hiring spree this decade, bolstering the unit overseeing rare-earth curbs even as it pauses sweeping measures in a trade truce with the US.
The Bureau of Industrial Security and Export and Import Controls is recruiting at least five bureaucrats for next year, according to an official job notice. That’s the most headcount it’s added since the ministry began publishing breakdowns of postings in 2022, according to a tally by Bloomberg News.