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China migrant jobless rate below three pct: govt survey
Beijing (AFP) Sept 15, 2009 Less than three percent of China's 151 million migrant workers were unemployed at the end of June, a government survey showed Tuesday, suggesting Beijing's stimulus package was helping create jobs. The number of unemployed migrant workers stood at 4.2 million at the end of June, the National Bureau of Statistics and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said on their websites, citing the results of the joint survey. The ministries did not provide details on how the survey was conducted. Earlier this year, nearly 20 million migrant workers, or about 15 percent, were forced to return home as the financial crisis hit China's manufacturing sector and they failed to find jobs, data from the labour ministry showed. China has struggled to keep a lid on unemployment, in an attempt to avert what it fears could lead to mass social unrest. China's urban registered unemployment rate stood at 4.3 percent in the second quarter, unchanged from the first three months of the year and up from 4.2 percent at the end of 2008, official data showed. However, the actual jobless figure may be much bigger than the official rate, which does not take into account migrant workers and university graduates. China said last month that about three million university graduates, including those who left last year, were still unemployed. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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