China's National Bureau of Statistics says it will make further efforts to stabilize employment, August unemployment rate rises - Chinese report

The National Bureau of Statistics of China recently announced that the average unemployment rate surveyed in urban and rural areas nationwide for the first eight months of this year was 5.2%, down 0.1 percentage point from the same period last year.
The unemployment rate was 5.3 percent, up 0.1 percentage point from the previous month. Liu Aihua, spokesperson for the bureau, said, "Since the beginning of this year, each region and department has strengthened its employment priority policy and promoted the employment
"With the establishment of a promotion system, China's employment has remained relatively stable overall," he said. As for the rise in the August survey unemployment rate, he said, "It is due to the fact that graduation season is approaching and students are enrolled in college.
"The influx of students due to graduate into the labor market has had a major impact," he said. The spokesman said China's employment situation is not just a quantitative burden, but also has structural problems, and the employment
He said further efforts were needed to achieve stability.