Uptick in jobs despite downturn

China's job market remained "generally stable" in the first half of the year despite the economic downturn, latest data showed.

China added 7.25 million jobs in the first half, an increase of 310,000 from the same period last year, Yin Weimin, minister of human resources and social security, said on Tuesday.

The registered urban unemployment rate stayed unchanged at 4.1 percent, he said.