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China aims to create over 11 mln jobs in 2017

Xinhua, March 5, 2017 Adjust font size:

China aims to create more than 11 million jobs this year, with registered urban unemployment rate kept within 4.5 percent, according to a government work report available to the media Sunday morning ahead of the annual parliamentary session.

China added 13.14 million jobs in 2016, and the registered urban jobless rate stood at 4.02 percent at the end of last year, according to the report. Endi