China and European Commission work together on boosting jobs

China and the European Commission should further learn from each other in boosting employment and social security under the joint Social Protection Reform Project, a senior official with the nation's top economic regulator said on Wednesday.

Wang Xiaotao, vice-minister of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that although China is on track to make the labor market more resilient, the nation faces new challenges amid its economic transformation.

The registered urban unemployment rate in China has been at 4.05 percent in recent years, Wang told a two-day, high-level forum on social protection reform that began in Beijing on Tuesday.