{"id":57577,"date":"2023-08-15T13:15:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T04:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/15\/china-unemployment-rate-youth-economy"},"modified":"2023-08-15T13:15:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T04:15:39","slug":"china-stops-releasing-youth-unemployment-rates-amid-economic-gloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57577","title":{"rendered":"China stops releasing youth unemployment rates amid economic gloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Release of figures suspended in order to \u2018optimise labour force survey statistics\u2019, says bureau, after youth jobless figure hit record 21.3% in June<\/p>\n<p>China has said it would suspend the release of youth unemployment figures, as its central bank cut a key interest rate to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/08\/chinese-economy-expected-to-have-slipped-into-deflation-as-recovery-falters\">boost flagging growth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Youth unemployment<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/29\/chinas-graduates-unconvinced-by-calls-to-toil-in-countryside\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/01\/china-graduates-jobs-market-youth-unemployment\">hit a record 21.3% in June<\/a>, as a slew of disappointing figures in recent months reflected a slump in China, with its post-Covid rebound fading.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/15\/china-unemployment-rate-youth-economy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Release of figures suspended in order to \u2018optimise labour force survey statistics\u2019, says bureau, after youth jobless figure hit record 21.3% in JuneChina has said it would suspend the release of youth unemployment figures, as its central bank cut a key&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57578,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57577\/revisions\/57578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}