China’s labor market has demonstrated remarkable stability throughout the first eleven months of 2025, with official statistics revealing the creation of 12.1 million new urban positions. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security released these figures on Tuesday, December 17, 2025, indicating a sustained positive trend in employment generation.
The data further indicates that the average urban unemployment rate remained at 5.2 percent during this eleven-month period, reflecting the effectiveness of comprehensive employment stabilization policies implemented throughout the year. Chinese authorities have consistently prioritized job security as fundamental to maintaining broader economic stability, particularly within the four critical domains of employment, enterprise operations, market functions, and economic expectations.
According to a representative from the ministry’s employment promotion department, future strategies will concentrate on dual objectives of maintaining existing employment levels while simultaneously expanding new opportunities. These efforts will include implementing targeted support measures for key demographic groups, enhancing vocational training programs to improve workforce adaptability, optimizing public employment services for more efficient job matching, and strengthening entrepreneurial support mechanisms to generate multiplicative employment effects throughout the economy.
The sustained job creation performance aligns with China’s broader economic stabilization initiatives that have emphasized employment quality and quantity as central components of socioeconomic development policy. These measures have proven particularly effective in navigating global economic uncertainties while maintaining domestic employment fundamentals.