Goal unchanged: 11 million urban jobs

Multiple channels will be used to achieve stable and expanding employment this year, Premier Li Keqiang said in delivering the Government Work Report at the opening of the second session of the 13th National People's Congress on Tuesday.

The goals the central government has set for employment in 2019 are unchanged from last year - creating more than 11 million urban jobs, keeping the surveyed urban unemployment rate around 5.5 percent and capping the registered urban unemployment rate below 4.5 percent.

The first rate is based on surveys, while the registered rate is based on self-reporting to government agencies.