China's urban property prices rose 5.3% in February

(China Daily)
Updated: 2007-03-21 10:14

Chinese workers rappel while cleaning the glass panels of a new property building in the central business district of Beijing March 20, 2007. Minister of Labour and Social Security Tian Chengping said there would be 24 million new urban job-seekers on the market this year, but the government would only be able to find jobs for half of them. China's registered unemployment rate in urban areas was 4.1 percent at the end of 2006. [Reuters]