The National Bureau of Statistics released China ’s economic data for April on May 15. The unemployment rate in urban surveys nationwide rose slightly, and the employment of major groups remained stable. From January to April, 3.54 million jobs were added to cities and towns across the country, a decrease of 1.05 million compared with the same period last year. The unemployment rate in the national urban survey in April was 6.0%, an increase of 0.1 percentage point from March. In April, the average weekly working hours of employees in enterprises across the country was 44.3 hours, 0.5 hours less than in March. (Editing Zhou Jing)
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