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China targets urban jobless rate below 5 pct

Xinhua, July 14, 2016 Adjust font size:

China will aim to keep its urban registered unemployment rate below 5 percent between 2016 and 2020, under a plan released on Thursday by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.

It said the country will aim to create job opportunities for more than 50 million people in cities during the period.

China's urban registered unemployment rate stood at 4.05 percent at the end of June. Endi