China News Service, August 15. The State Council Information Office held a press conference on the operation of the national economy in July on the 15th.

Fu Linghui, spokesman of the National Bureau of Statistics and director of the National Economic Comprehensive Statistics Department, said at the meeting that since this year, due to factors exceeding expectations, employment pressure has increased.

In April, the national urban surveyed unemployment rate rose to 6.1%.

With the continuous effective coordination of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, and the continuous efforts of the employment stabilization policy, the employment situation has generally improved since May.

The surveyed unemployment rate in cities and towns across the country has continued to fall, falling to 5.4% in July.

　　According to Fu Linghui, judging from the situation in July, the employment situation mainly showed the following characteristics:

　　First, the employment of the main employment group continued to improve.

In July, the unemployment rate of adults aged 25-59 was 4.3%, a decrease of 0.2 percentage points from the previous month, and was close to the level of the same period last year, indicating that the employment fundamentals remained basically stable.

　　Second, the employment of migrant workers has improved.

The employment assistance policies for key groups such as migrant workers continued to exert force, and the unemployment rate of migrant workers continued to fall.

In July, the unemployment rate of migrants with agricultural household registration was 5.1%, a decrease of 0.2 percentage points from the previous month, and continued to be lower than the overall unemployment rate.

We saw that in April, due to the impact of the epidemic, the unemployment rate of migrant agricultural households was higher than the overall unemployment rate. With the gradual recovery of the economy, the unemployment rate of migrant agricultural households fell rapidly, and it has been lower than the overall rate for two consecutive months. Unemployment level.

　　In general, my country's employment situation is generally stable, and the unemployment rate has continued to decline.

However, we must also see that the total employment pressure and structural pressure still exist.

In July, the overall level of the national unemployment rate was still higher than that of the same period of the previous year, and the youth unemployment rate was still at a historically high level.

　　Fu Linghui said that in the next stage, it is still necessary to continue to implement various policies and measures to stabilize the economy, promote the continuous recovery of the economy, actively help enterprises, expand employment positions, increase employment stabilization efforts, and strengthen employment assistance for key groups such as college students. Support and promote the employment situation to stabilize and improve.

(Zhongxin Finance)

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