Urban unemployment rate in China at 5.2 percent in March

Friday, 19 April 2019 11:44:35 (GMT+3)   |   Shanghai
       

The unemployment rate in cities and towns in China was 5.2 percent in March this year, which was 0.1 percentage point lower than the 5.3 percent recorded in the previous month, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

Meanwhile, in the January-March period of the year, 3.24 million new jobs were created in China’s cities and towns.


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