The client of Chinanews.com July 16th. On July 16, the National Bureau of Statistics released China’s economic data for the first half of the year. The unemployment rate in urban surveys nationwide has declined, and the employment situation is generally stable.

  In the first half of the year, 5.64 million people were employed in cities and towns across the country, completing 62.7% of the annual target. In June, the unemployment rate of the national urban survey was 5.7%, a decrease of 0.2 percentage points from May; the unemployment rate of the 25-59-year-old population survey was 5.2%, lower than the national urban survey unemployment rate of 0.5 percentage points, a decrease of 0.2 from May Percentage points. The surveyed unemployment rate in 31 major cities and towns was 5.8%, a decrease of 0.1 percentage point from May. The average weekly working hours of employees in enterprises across the country is 46.8 hours. At the end of the second quarter, the total number of rural migrant workers was 175.52 million.