There are eight categories of occupations, and how many categories are occupations?

1. Heads of state organs, party organizations, enterprises, and public institutions, including 5 medium categories, 16 sub-categories, and 25 sub-categories;

2. Professional and technical personnel, including 14 medium categories, 115 sub-categories, and 379 sub-categories;

3. Clerks and related personnel, including 4 medium categories, 12 sub-categories and 45 sub-categories;

4. Commercial and service personnel, including 8 medium categories, 43 sub-categories, and 147 sub-categories;

5. Production personnel in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and water conservancy, including 6 medium categories, 30 sub-categories and 121 sub-categories;

6. Production and transportation equipment operators and related personnel, including 27 medium categories, 195 sub-categories and 1119 sub-categories;

7. Soldiers, including 1 medium class, 1 sub-class, and 1 sub-class;

8. Other practitioners who are inconvenient to classify, including 1 category, 1 sub-category, and 1 sub-category.

Extended Materials. Significance of Occupational Classification:

1. Work of the same nature often has common characteristics and laws. Classifying occupations of the same nature into one category will help the state to classify and manage the workforce, and adopt corresponding management methods such as recruitment, deployment, assessment, training, rewards and punishments according to different occupational characteristics and work requirements, so as to make the management more targeted.

2. The occupational classification determines the job responsibilities and the professional qualities required to perform duties and complete the work for each occupation, which provides a basis for the post responsibility system.

3. Occupational classification is helpful to establish a reasonable occupational structure and staff allocation system.

4. Occupational classification is an important basis for the assessment and intellectual development of employees. The assessment is to examine whether the employee is competent for the professional work he undertakes, and whether he has completed the work tasks he should complete.

The categories are as follows:

Occupational classification: the first category, heads of state organs, party organizations, enterprises, and public institutions; the second category, professional and technical personnel; the third category, clerical staff and related personnel; the fourth category, commercial and service personnel; the fifth category, production personnel in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and water conservancy; The sixth category, production and transportation equipment operators and related personnel; the seventh category, military personnel; The eighth category is other practitioners who are inconvenient to classify.

Occupation, that is, the work that an individual is engaged in to serve the society and as the main life. Occupational classification refers to the process of dividing and uniformly classifying social occupations with the same or similar general and essential characteristics into a certain category system according to certain rules, standards and methods, and according to the nature and characteristics of occupations.

Technical and skilled occupations predominate. Occupations, which account for 60.88 percent of the total number of actual occupations, are distributed in the category of "operators of production and transportation equipment and related personnel," and they belong to all major fields of industrial production in our country. From the analysis of the work content of this type of occupation, it is characterized by technical and skill-based operations.

The proportion of occupations in the tertiary industry is relatively small, accounting for only about 8% of the total number of actual occupations. The distribution of occupations in the three major industries is the largest in the secondary industry.

There are fewer knowledge-based and high-tech occupations. In the existing occupational structure, the number of knowledge-based and high-tech occupations does not exceed 3 percent of the total.

The Occupational Classification Dictionary of the People's Republic of China divides China's occupations into four levels from large to small, from coarse to fine: large category (8), medium category (66), small category (413), and small category (1838). The sub-category is the smallest category, i.e. occupation.

The 8 categories are:

The first category is the person in charge of state organs, party organizations, enterprises and institutions, and the second category is professional and technical personnel.

The third category is clerical staff and related personnel.

The fourth category is the personnel in the business and service industries.

The fifth category is agricultural, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery production personnel.

The sixth category is the production and transportation equipment operators and related personnel, and the seventh category is the military.

The eighth category is other practitioners who are inconvenient to classify.

1. The first category: the heads of state organs, party organizations, enterprises, and public institutions, including 5 medium categories, 16 sub-categories, and 25 sub-categories;

2. The second category: professional and technical personnel, including 14 medium categories, 115 sub-categories, and 379 sub-categories;

3. The third category: clerical staff and related personnel, including 4 medium categories, 12 sub-categories, and 45 sub-categories;

4. The fourth category: commercial and service personnel, including 8 medium categories, 43 sub-categories, and 147 sub-categories;

5. The fifth category: production personnel in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and water conservancy, including 6 medium categories, 30 sub-categories and 121 sub-categories;

6. The sixth category: production and transportation equipment operators and related personnel, including 27 medium categories, 195 sub-categories, and 1119 sub-categories;

7. The seventh category: soldiers, including 1 medium class, 1 sub-class, and 1 sub-class;

8. The eighth category: other practitioners who are inconvenient to classify, including 1 medium category, 1 sub-category, and 1 sub-category.