Beijing abandons its five-year job-creation target
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Chinese officials have a job ahead of them. In its five-year plan (FYP), issued on July 9, the human resources ministry (MoHRSS) abandoned its decades-long five-year numerical target for newly created urban jobs.
Instead, the plan says that new urban jobs will remain "substantial," with figures set...