{"id":10807,"date":"2021-01-20T11:15:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T11:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3118532\/china-jobs-market-still-seen-weak-unstable-even-unemployment"},"modified":"2021-01-20T11:15:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T11:15:05","slug":"china-jobs-market-still-seen-as-weak-unstable-even-as-unemployment-rate-returns-to-pre-coronavirus-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/20\/china-jobs-market-still-seen-as-weak-unstable-even-as-unemployment-rate-returns-to-pre-coronavirus-level\/","title":{"rendered":"China jobs market still seen as weak, unstable even as unemployment rate returns to pre-coronavirus level"},"content":{"rendered":"While China\u2019s unemployment picture, like the overall economy, on paper has all but recovered from the impact of the coronavirus, the reality on the ground suggests the job market still remains weak and unstable.As China reported its economy grew by 2.3 per last year and by 6.5 per cent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, the often criticised official surveyed unemployment rate came in at 5.2 per cent in December. This was the same as at the end of 2019 and a far cry from February\u2019s\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3118532\/china-jobs-market-still-seen-weak-unstable-even-unemployment\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While China\u2019s unemployment picture, like the overall economy, on paper has all but recovered from the impact of the coronavirus, the reality on the ground suggests the job market still remains weak and unstable.As China reported its economy grew by 2.3&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":770,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/770"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10808,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807\/revisions\/10808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}