Numbers Today | Unemployment rate at 4.3 percent in urban areas of China

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• Volunteers get cheap rent for spending time with the elderly

  300 yuanThe eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou has piloted a project through which young people can volunteer to live with the elderly in exchange for lower rent.The program, launched in a care center for the elderly in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Province, allows young single people with permanent employment to pay only 300 yuan ($43) to rent a room in

• 6,000 evacuated after landslide causes flooding in the Tibet Autonomous Region

  Over 6,000 people have been evacuated after a landslide caused flooding along the Yarlung Tsangpo River in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, local authorities said Thursday.The landslide struck during the early hours of Wednesday near a village in Menling County, blocking the river's waterway, according to the disaster relief reports.The amount of floodwater has surpassed 300 million cubic meters. No

• Numbers Today | Unemployment rate at 4.3 percent in urban areas of China

  China's job market remained stable over the first eight months of the year, with a low unemployment rate, official data showed Wednesday.The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said the urban unemployment rate in 37 major cities was 4.3 percent. The monthly unemployment rate data from urban areas is released to help the government improve control over the economy at the