Economic Buzz: China unemployment rate at 5.2%

In the first eight months, the urban surveyed unemployment rate in China averaged 5.2 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics of China reported. In August, the urban surveyed unemployment rate was 5.3 percent, 0.1 percentage points higher than that of the previous month, maintaining the same level as that of the same month last year.

The surveyed unemployment rate of population with local household registration was 5.4 percent, and that of population with non-local household registration was 5.0 percent, among which, the rate of population with non-local agricultural household registration was 4.7 percent.

The urban surveyed unemployment rate in 31 major cities was 5.3 percent, 0.1 percentage points higher than that of the previous month, or 0.1 percentage points lower than that of the same month last year. The employees of enterprises worked 48.5 hours per week on average.

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