China's job market remains stable as urban unemployment rate falls - Xinhua

BEIJING, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- China's job market remained generally stable in the first three quarters of 2026, with the surveyed urban unemployment rate declining in September, official data showed on Monday. The average surveyed urban unemployment rate stood at 5.2 percent in the first nine months of the year, unchanged from the same period of 2025, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). In September alone, the surveyed urban unemployment rate came in at 5.2 percent, down 0.1 percentage points from the previous month. The surveyed unemployment rate among workers with local household registration was 5.2 percent, while that among workers with non-local household registration stood at 5.1 percent.