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China creates 9.4m new jobs in urban areas in Jan-Oct

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-12-12 13:12

China created 9.4 million new jobs in urban areas in the first ten months, the Ministry of Human Resource and Social Security said Saturday.

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The number represented 104 percent of the whole year target for 2009, the ministry said. Around 4.4 million laid-off workers were re-employed in the January-October period, or 88 percent of the 5-million goal for the whole year.