China says unemployment rate at 4.05% at end of Q1

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's urban unemployment rate ticked down slightly to 4.05 per cent at the end of March from 4.1 per cent at the end of 2014, the labour ministry said on Friday.

The government of the world's second biggest economy aims to create at least 10 million new jobs in 2015 and keep the urban jobless rate below 4.5 per cent.

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