Employees work at a food processing factory in Yichang, Hubei Province in this Jan. 17 photo. China’s survey-based unemployment rate stood at around 5.1 percent throughout January and February, State television quoted the statistics bureau as saying yesterday. The rate is hovering at a relatively low level, and 0.05 percentage points below the same period a year earlier, it added. The latest unemployment rate was unchanged from the figure reported by the statistics bureau in mid-January.
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