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Sheng Laiyun, deputy director of the National Bureau of Statistics, said on Tuesday that in terms of total volume, ChinaCrashbandicoot1onlineThe outlook for the job market is relatively optimistic, and we need to pay attention to structural contradictions.

"judging from the situation in the first quarter, including in March, the unemployment rate has risen slightly." Sheng Laiyun told reporters after the press conference on the operation of the national economy in the first quarter. The National Bureau of Statistics will release youth unemployment data for March on April 18.

He pointed out: on the one hand, the supply of blue-collar workers and skilled workers in the front line falls short of demand; on the other hand, the employment pressure on university graduates is relatively great. In the past two years, more than 10 million university graduates have entered the labor market. However, these young workers are unwilling to engage in front-line production positions, resulting in a structural mismatch in the job market.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, in February this year, the youth unemployment rate excluding students was 15.Crashbandicoot1online.3 percent, 0.7 percentage points higher than in January and 10 percentage points higher than the unemployment rate surveyed in cities and towns in the same period.

However, Sheng Laiyun stressed that there is no problem with China's total employment, and the overall unemployment rate is also falling. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the average unemployment rate in urban surveys across the country was 5.2 percent in the first quarter of this year, down 0.3 percentage points from the same period last year. In March, the unemployment rate in the national urban survey was 5.2 percent, down 0.1 percentage points from the previous month.

Sheng Laiyun pointed out that China's economy is still developing continuously, which is the primary factor supporting employment. "Last year, our GDP increment was 6 trillion yuan, and last year's total was 126 trillion yuan. It takes at least 10 million people to produce this 6 trillion GDP. " He said.

The second is industrial upgrading, especially the accelerated development of the service industry. "whether it is traditional service industry or modern service industry, most of them are labor-intensive industries, and their labor demand is relatively flexible." Sheng Laiyun said that at present, the proportion of the service industry in GDP has exceeded 55%, and the future development of the service industry will also increase the employment flexibility of China's economy.

In the first quarter of this year, China's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 5.3 per cent from a year earlier, exceeding the market consensus of 5.0 per cent.

Sheng Laiyun said at the press conference that at present, there has been a cumulative increase in the number of positive factors supporting China's continued recovery, such as the pick-up in external demand, the improvement in domestic demand and the acceleration of investment in manufacturing. He stressed: to observe China's economy, we should not only look at changes in economic aggregate indicators, but also pay more attention to the improvement of quality and efficiency, especially the effectiveness of economic restructuring and the progress of high-quality development.

For example, in terms of innovation and development, China's R & D expenditure accounted for 1.91% of GDP in 2012, compared with 2.64% last year, he said. In terms of the urbanization rate, it was about 52% in 2012 and 66.2% last year, an increase of nearly 1 percentage point a year.

"China is still in the stage of structural adjustment, transformation and upgrading, and some enterprises have to carry out transformation and upgrading, so we have to bear some of the pains of transformation. Due to the adjustment of traditional industries and the cultivation of new momentum, it is normal to have some fluctuations in economic growth, but the quality of development continues to improve and high-quality development continues to make progress, which is the fundamental for China's economy to recover for the better. " Sheng Laiyun said.