China needs to add 16.62 million people to urban workforce in 2023 -vice minister
FILE PHOTO: Yu Jinting, 26, from Baoding in Hebei province, works at a construction site in Beijing, China July 20, 2017. REUTERS/Jason Lee
BEIJING : China needs to add 16.62 million people to the urban workforce this year, the highest number in recent years, vice human resources minister, Yu Jiadong, said on Thursday.
China's working-age population - aged 16 to 59 - was 876 million people as at the end of 2022 from a peak of 920 million, Yu said, citing data from the National Bureau of Statistics.
Source: Reuters
