China created job posts for 6.29 million new labors and 2.79 million laid-off workers from January to June, said Ying Shuji, a spokesman with the Ministry of Labor and Social Security on Friday.

Another 740,000 people who had been hard to find jobs got employed during that period. By the end of June, the nation had accomplished 70 percent of the 2007 new-labor-employment target, getting 210,000 more people employed compared with the same period of last year, making the first half best ever since the nation implemented vigorous employment policies, he said.

By the end of June, the nation's registered urban unemployed head count stood at 8.38 million. The unemployment rate was 4.1 percent, down by 0.1 percentage points compared with the corresponding period of last year.

(Xinhua News Agency July 20, 2007)