No Tech Barrier to Publishing Unemployment Rate, Statistics Official Says

(Beijing) – The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) faces no technical barriers to publishing an unemployment rate based on its surveys, a senior official at the bureau said, after Premier Li Keqiang indicated the government will begin publishing a figure for the first time.

The State Council will arrange a timetable for publishing the data, the official said on July 31, but so far the bureau has not received a notice from the cabinet on when to do this.