Zhongxin Finance, April 18. The National Bureau of Statistics released the first quarterly report of China's economy on the 18th. In the first quarter, 2.85 million new jobs were created in urban areas across the country, and the national average urban survey unemployment rate was 5.5%.
In March, the national urban surveyed unemployment rate was 5.8 percent, up 0.3 percentage points from the previous month.
The surveyed unemployment rates of the 16-24 and 25-59 age groups were 16.0% and 5.2% respectively.
The surveyed unemployment rate in 31 large cities and towns was 6.0%.
The national average weekly working time of enterprise employees is 47.3 hours.
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