BEIJING (Reuters) – China needs to add 16.62 million people to the urban workforce this year, the highest number in recent years, vice human resources minister, Yu Jiadong, said on Thursday.
China’s working-age population – aged 16 to 59 – was 876 million people as at the end of 2022 from a peak of 920 million, Yu said, citing data from the National Bureau of Statistics.
(Reporting by Ellen Zhang and Ryan Woo; Editing by Christopher Cushing)
