China to create more than 50m new urban jobs by 2020
Published Thu, Jul 14, 2016 · 08:44 AM
[BEIJING] China will create more than 50 million new urban jobs between 2016 and 2020, the country's human resources ministry said on Thursday.
In the ministry's 13th five-year plan, it said in a statement on its website that China will keep urban registered unemployment rate within 5 per cent in the same period.
China's urban unemployment rate stood at 4.05 per cent at the end of June this year.
REUTERS
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