BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s stable economic performance should continue in the second half of this year and the overheated property market has cooled somewhat, a spokesman of National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday.
China created 8.55 million new jobs in the January-July period, and the July survey-based unemployment rate in major cities was under 5 percent, Mao Shengyong told a news conference.
(Reporting by Elias Glenn; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)
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