China's National Bureau of Statistics said employment is broadly stable. The urban surveyed unemployment rate rose seasonally to 5.3% in August, up 0.1 percentage point month-on-month; the Jan–Aug average was 5.2%, unchanged year-on-year. In 31 major cities the urban surveyed unemployment rate was 5.3%, up 0.1 percentage point from July. Unemployment among local household-registration (hukou) workers was 5.3%; non-local (migrant) household-registration workers 5.2%, including non-local agricultu

China's National Bureau of Statistics said employment is broadly stable. The urban surveyed unemployment rate rose seasonally to 5.3% in August, up 0.1 percentage point month-on-month; the Jan–Aug average was 5.2%, unchanged year-on-year. In 31 major cities the urban surveyed unemployment rate was 5.3%, up 0.1 percentage point from July. Unemployment among local household-registration (hukou) workers was 5.3%; non-local (migrant) household-registration workers 5.2%, including non-local agricultural-hukou workers at 5.0%. Nationwide average weekly hours for enterprise employees were 48.2 hours.