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Unemployment rate targeted within 4.6% in 2010

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-03-05 09:03
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China plans to keep the urban registered unemployment rate no higher than 4.6 percent and create over 9 million new jobs in urban areas this year, according to a government work report delivered by Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing Friday.

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