China News Service Client, April 17 (Li Jinlei) In the first quarter, 2.29 million people were employed in cities and towns across the country. In March, the unemployment rate in the national urban survey was 5.9%, a decrease of 0.3 percentage points from February. Mao Shengyong, a spokesman for the National Bureau of Statistics, said on the 17th that despite the impact of the epidemic, the employment situation was generally stable and there were no large-scale layoffs across the country.