BEIJING -- Unemployment in China is on the rise despite the government having ended its strict zero-COVID restrictions in December, as the economic boost from the shift fails to reach the country's smaller cities.
New data from China's statistics bureau shows that urban unemployment stood at 5.6% for the first two months of 2023, a slight rise of 0.2 point from a year earlier.
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