In 2025, 12.67 million new jobs were added in urban areas nationwide.

On the 20th, it was learned from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security that in 2025, there will be 12.67 million new urban jobs in the country, with the average urban unemployment rate at 5.2%, and the overall employment situation will remain stable. Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, Wang Xiaoping, stated that in 2026, they will focus on building a job-friendly development approach, promoting efficient linkage between policies, services, and monitoring to ensure the overall stability of employment. For young people such as college graduates, they will research and implement a new round of policies and measures to promote employment, intensify recruitment activities such as the "Job Future", implement the fifth round of the "Three Supports and One Assistance" plan, and deepen the implementation of service guidance actions and the development of one million employment internship positions. For migrant workers, they will cultivate more labor brands that have strong employment-driving capabilities, expand channels for migrant worker employment, and improve the mechanism for preventing poverty caused by a return to poverty through employment assistance. They will continue to provide employment assistance to people in difficult situations and carry out employment work for groups like retired soldiers effectively. Furthermore, they will coordinate fiscal, monetary, employment, industrial, price, and other policies, speed up the establishment of a monitoring and early warning system for the impact of AI on employment, and build a job-friendly development path for technology. They will implement actions to stabilize and expand job positions, utilize policies like stable job return mechanisms and tax incentives effectively, continue to implement temporary reductions in unemployment and work injury insurance rates, and support labor-intensive industry enterprises in stabilizing job positions. They will improve the quality and efficiency of employment services and launch more targeted and effective training programs.