China added 7.25 million jobs in the first half, an increase of 3.10 lakh during the same period last year, Yin Weimin, minister of human resources and social security said today.
He also added the job market was "generally stable" during the period.
The registered urban unemployment rate stayed unchanged at 4.1 per cent, state-run Xinhua news agency quoted him as saying.
"Maintaining a steady job market will be a long-term and arduous task," he said, adding that the number of workers between the ages of 20 and 59 will peak around 2020.
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Recent reports said China produced a record 6.99 million graduates this year, most of whom are struggling to find jobs.
Meanwhile the employment rate for graduates of higher vocational schools in China rose slightly from 2010 to 2012, another report said.
The report, jointly conducted by the Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences and the educational research company MyCOS Institute, said the employment rate of vocational graduates increased to 90.4 per cent in 2012, just below the 91.5 per cent employment rate for college graduates in the same year.
The survey also showed that the incomes of higher vocation school graduates rose 120 per cent from 2009 to 2012.
The rate of self-employed higher vocational school graduates reached 2.9 per cent in 2012, while 1.2 per cent of college graduates chose to open their own businesses in the same year, it said.
Researchers surveyed about two lakh graduates of higher vocational schools in the 31 provincial-level regions in China over the past few years, the report said.