As of June 30 this year, the unemployment rate in cities and towns in China was at 5.2 percent, as announced by China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
In the first half of the current year, newly employed people in cities and towns in China amounted to 7.17 million, accounting for 71.7 percent of the annual target. In particular, in the given period newly employed people in China’s mining sector, manufacturing sector and service sector decreased by 11.3 percent and 2.6 percent and rose by 3.2 percent, respectively.