National Bureau of Statistics: my country's employment situation is generally stable, and the unemployment rate has fallen continuously

China Economic Net, Beijing, August 15th. In response to the current employment situation, the spokesman of the National Bureau of Statistics and Director of the Department of Statistics of the National Economic Comprehensive Statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics said at the press conference of the National New Office today that this year, it has been affected by the excellent factors this year. Employment pressure has increased. In April, the unemployment rate of urban surveys in the country rose to 6.1%. With the continuous efficiency of the prevention and control of the epidemic and economic and social development, and the continuous efforts of the employment policy, the employment situation has improved overall since May. The unemployment rate of urban surveys in the country has continued to fall, and in July, it has fallen to 5.4%.

Fu Linghui said that from the situation in July, the employment situation mainly presented the following characteristics:

The first is that the employment of employment is continued to improve. In July, the unemployment rate of adults at the age of 25-59 was 4.3%, a decrease of 0.2 percentage points from the previous month, which was close to the same period last year, indicating that the basic employment inventory remained basically stable.

Second, the employment group of migrant workers improves. In response to the employment assistance policy of key groups such as migrant workers continued to work, the unemployment rate of migrant workers continued to fall. In July, the unemployment rate of foreign agricultural household registration population was 5.1%, which fell 0.2 percentage points from last month, and continued to be lower than the overall unemployment level. In April, due to the impact of the epidemic, the unemployment rate of foreign agricultural household registration population was higher than that of the overall unemployment rate. As the economy gradually recovered, the unemployment rate of foreign agricultural household registration population was declining rapidly. At present, it has been lower than the overall unemployment rate for two consecutive months.

Fu Linghui pointed out that in general, my country's employment situation is generally stable and the unemployment rate has continued to fall. But we must also see that the pressure and structural pressure of the total employment still exist. In July, the overall level of unemployment rate in the country was higher than the same period last year, and the unemployment rate of young people was still at a high level.

He said that in the next stage, we must continue to implement various policies and measures to stabilize the economy, promote continuous economic recovery, actively help enterprises to rescue, expand employment positions, increase employment efforts, strengthen employment assistance to key groups such as college students. Promoting the employment situation is stable and better.

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