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China says nearly 6 million new urban jobs created in Jan-May, jobless rate stable

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BEIJING (Reuters) - Job creation remained solid in China over the first five months of the year, with 5.99 million new urban jobs, a spokeswoman for the nation's statistics bureau said Wednesday China's survey-based jobless rate both nationwide and in 31 major cities remained below 5 percent in May, National Bureau of Statistics spokeswoman Liu Aihua said Wednesday.

(Reporting by Kevin Yao; Writing by Elias Glenn; Editing by Kim Coghill)

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First Published: Jun 14 2017 | 8:16 AM IST

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