“Suspiciously stable”: How China’s unemployment rate is calculated
The most politically sensitive number in China right now arguably isn’t its coronavirus case count, but its unemployment rate. In a sign of just how much of a hot potato job numbers are for the Communist Party, a Chinese brokerage firm was last month forced to retract an analyst report that estimated the country’s unemployment rate at over 20%—multiple times higher than the official count.
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