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Unemployment rate targeted within 4.6% in 2010

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-03-05 09:03

China plans to keep the urban registered unemployment rate no higher than 4.6 percent and create over 9 million new jobs in urban areas this year, according to a government work report delivered by Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing?Friday.

Related readings:  China still faces serious employment pressure  China to introduce surveyed unemployment rate  Employment pressure to peak in June  China creates 11.02m new jobs in 2009

China created 11.02 million new jobs in urban areas in 2009 amid the lingering financial crisis, while the country's urban unemployment rate stood at 4.3 percent, with 9.21 million people being registered to be unemployed.

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