China’s urban unemployment rate

Can you imagine a country’s official, every month, with a serious interest in publishing a fake data that has a major impact on the national economy and people’s livelihood?

China’s unemployment rate is such a data.

China’s unemployment rate, fake!

Let’s look at a piece of news first: On August 15, 2022, Fu Linghui, a spokesperson for the National Bureau of Statistics of China, said at a press conference about unemployment in China: “In July, the surveyed unemployment rate was 5.4%, down from the previous month. 0.1%. The unemployment rate of adults aged 25-59 was 4.3%, a decrease of 0.2 percentage points from the previous month, and was close to the level of the same period last year, indicating that the employment fundamentals remained basically stable.” At the same time, he admitted: “The surveyed unemployment of 16-24-year-olds in July The rate was 19.9%, up 0.6% from the previous month.”

The youth unemployment rate is 19.9%! Scary! Surveyed unemployment rate for 16-24 years, also known as youth unemployment. Many people have heard that in China, one in five young people is unemployed, and the youth unemployment rate has reached a record 19.9%, far exceeding the “failed countries” that are ridiculed by some Chinese, such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and other countries. Time and public opinion are in turmoil, gloating and defending in every possible way.

In fact, the youth unemployment rate of 19.9% ​​is not true, it is fake, and the real data is even more frightening.

Also, the surveyed unemployment rate of 5.4%, the adult unemployment rate of 4.3%, etc., are not true and false.

The actual situation is that in the more than 40 years after 1949, Chinese officials have never released any unemployment rate data, nor even admit the existence of unemployment in China, or even allow public discussions on unemployment.

Since the late 1990s, Chinese officials have had to admit that there is also unemployment in China and began to announce the unemployment rate. Unfortunately, so far, Chinese officials have never released real unemployment data. The data is not real, it is fake, it is “zombie data”.

The real unemployment rate in China is much higher than the official data.

Why do you say that China’s official unemployment rate is unreal and fake?

In 1962, economist Arthur Okun put forward the famous Okun’s Law or Okun’s Law: There is an inverse relationship between the real economic growth rate and changes in the unemployment rate, that is, the higher the economic growth rate, the higher the unemployment rate. Low. For every 2 percentage point decline in GDP relative to potential GDP, unemployment rises by roughly 1 percentage point. Conversely, for every 1 percentage point unemployment rate

Unemployment is a barometer of the economy. When the economy is prosperous, GDP growth is high, people have jobs, and the unemployment rate is low; on the contrary, in an economic recession, the GDP growth rate is reduced or even negative, and more people will lose their jobs, and the unemployment rate will be high. Unemployment is negatively correlated with economic sentiment.

That is to say, whether the unemployment rate is true or false, can be seen according to Okun’s law – whether it has a correlation with economic growth . For example: if the GDP growth rate is 10% and the official unemployment rate is 5%, when the GDP growth rate drops to 4%, the unemployment rate should rise to 8%, and the same is true for sending it. Unemployment has no correlation with economic growth and must be fake data.

Taking the United States as an example, during several periods of high economic growth in the United States, a low unemployment rate of less than 4% was recorded. Recently, the United States has experienced high economic growth under inflation, with the lowest unemployment rate at 3.5%. During several major economic crises, such as the 1929-1933 Great Depression, the 2008 financial crisis, and the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. unemployment rate rose sharply, reaching a maximum of more than 20%. Unemployment in the United States is highly negatively correlated with the economy, as is the case in other countries around the world, proving that Okun’s law holds true.

In China, however, Okun’s law is broken. For more than 20 years, the official unemployment rate has not been correlated with changes in GDP. Take a look at a set of data:

2010-2021 GDP Growth Rate and Unemployment Data

Year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

GDP Growth % 10.3 9.2 7.8 7.7 7.4 6.9 6.7 6.95 6.75 5.95 2.24 8.1

Registered Unemployment % 4.1 4.1 4.1 4.05 4.09 4.05 4.02 3.9 3.8 3.6 4.2 3.96

Surveyed Unemployment % 4.9 5.2 5.2 5.1

Note: The data are compiled according to the National Annual Statistical Bulletin of the National Bureau of Statistics of the People’s Republic of China

As can be seen from the above data: in 2010, when the GDP growth rate was as high as 10.3%, the unemployment rate was 4.1%. If we take 2010 as a reference, according to Okun’s law, the GDP growth rate in 2019 should drop to 5.95%, and the unemployment rate should rise by two percentage points to 6.1%. However, the official registered unemployment rate is 3.6%. The unemployment rate is 0.5% lower than that in 2010. It moves against the law of Okun, and the water flows upwards, creating a miracle of the world. 2020 is even more strange. The GDP growth rate is only 2.24%. According to Okun’s Law, the unemployment rate should be around 8% ( the calculation here uses the official registered unemployment rate. Please note that the official unemployment rate is the urban unemployment rate. If Including the rural unemployed, the real unemployment rate will be much higher than the 8% calculated according to Okun’s law ), and the official registered unemployment rate of 4.2% is only an increase of the unemployment rate in 2010 when the GDP growth rate was as high as 10.3% 0.1%. Obviously, it is not one by one living data that reflects the real world, but one by one data zombies.

Looking at 2022, from January to July, the economy will be in recession and all industries will be in decline. Among them, the economic growth in the second quarter is only 0.4%. However, when you look at the unemployment rate data, it is still like a zombie, almost motionless – the survey unemployment rate was 5.5% in June and 5.4% in July.

Myths dare not write like this!

Curiously, China’s unemployment rate has no correlation with GDP growth, but is surprisingly consistent with the central document. The unemployment rate target set by the central document must be the official unemployment rate data. China’s unemployment rate has never listened to the economy and resolutely obeyed the organization’s arrangements. For a long period of time, the central government ordered that the GDP should be maintained at “8” and the unemployment rate should be maintained at “4”. Therefore, from 1998 to 2021, regardless of the wind and rain, whether the economic growth exceeds 10% or less than 3%, registered unemployment The rate has always been better than walking in the courtyard, and has been slightly swaying around 4% for a long time, with a fluctuation range of no more than 0.3%. In 2018, after the launch of the surveyed unemployment rate, the official released two unemployment data, the surveyed unemployment rate and the registered unemployment rate, at the same time every month. Continue to keep “4”. Even with such a major event as the new crown epidemic, despite the drastic economic fluctuations in China, ordinary people feel the chill in the workplace, and the tide of unemployment, the unemployment rate is still unwavering and ruthless in the implementation of the central document. Reflect the suffering of thousands of unemployed.

Therefore, China’s unemployment rate is recognized as a “zombie data”, it is a waste indicator and cannot be used at all . Of course, the official also knows that the unemployment rate data is fake, so when formulating economic and monetary policies, the unemployment rate is never taken into consideration. Of course, the economics, investment, business, and even the private sector are aware of this—

Unemployment rate in China is fake.

Unemployment rate, how to fake it?

It stands to reason that the unemployment rate is quantified and has objective measures, which are not easily concealed and cannot be faked. Moreover, in April 2018, Ning Jizhe, director of the National Bureau of Statistics, answered a reporter’s question on the release of the urban surveyed unemployment rate, saying that China ‘s definition of the employed population and the unemployed population is consistent with the International Labour Organization standard, and the surveyed unemployment rate has international standards. comparability.

Since the director of the National Bureau of Statistics believes that China’s surveyed unemployment rate data are internationally comparable, why does Okun’s Law work in other countries but not in China? Unemployment rates in other countries are highly negatively correlated with economic fluctuations. Why is there no correlation between unemployment rates in China and economic fluctuations? How did this fake come about?

And according to the international comparability mentioned by the Secretary, compare how the unemployment rate of the United States and China is calculated.

Let’s first look at how the unemployment rate in the United States came about.

In the United States, the U3 unemployment rate is officially adopted and published regularly, that is, the proportion of people who are actively looking for work but have no work among people who are of working age and have the ability to work during a certain period of time. Every month, the Bureau of Labor Investigations under the U.S. Department of Labor obtains data from a nationwide survey of approximately 110,000 people (60,000 households), and publishes statistics and analysis on this basis. In the indicator calculation, the population actively looking for work in the past four weeks but not able to start work is defined as the unemployed population, which excludes individuals under the age of 16, soldiers serving in the military, prisoners and psychiatric patients, also Does not include finding a job and no longer looking for a job.

The U3 unemployment rate adopted by the US government has been strongly criticized by many parties for not reflecting the real situation of current unemployment. Many economists believe that the U6 unemployment rate is more accurate than the U3 unemployment rate. The U6 unemployment rate includes not only the unemployed who are actively looking for a job, but also the discouraged unemployed, that is, the unemployed who claim to no longer look for a job because they cannot find a job or for other reasons. These unemployed are not counted in U3. in unemployment statistics. Additionally, individuals working part-time or temporarily in U3 are considered employed and are not included in the statistics. Obviously, U6 is a larger and more meaningful value than U3 because it covers a larger percentage of the unemployed. For example, in September 2020, with the effects of the pandemic still lingering, the U-3 unemployment rate in the U.S. was 7.7%, while the U-6 unemployment rate was 12.4%.

Let’s look at how China’s unemployment rate came about.

The surveyed unemployment rate in China is carried out by the national survey team of the National Bureau of Statistics. About 120,000 households are surveyed every month, covering both households and collective households. The sample covers all cities (prefectures, prefectures, leagues) and about 1,800 counties in China. (Cities, districts and flags), data collection is carried out by relying on the online direct reporting system of the National Bureau of Statistics. Every month, more than 10,000 investigators use hand-held electronic terminal equipment to collect data in real time at the home, and report them directly to the National Bureau of Statistics through the network. In addition, China’s official definition of employed population and unemployed population is basically the same as that of the International Labor Organization and the United States. Unemployment refers to people who are able to work within working age, are currently unemployed, and are looking for work in some way. Therefore, China’s unemployment rate is also U3. Although the sample size cannot be compared with that of the United States, the official thinks that it is roughly similar to the United States, and the statistical methods are not backward.

Now that the investigation methods and caliber are in line with international standards, where can we fake it? In actual operation, there are too many places that can be faked, not to mention the “fat” in actual operation such as sample size, household survey deviation, etc., just to mention three points:

The first point is age.

Unemployment in the U.S. is 16 years old and over, with no upper limit. Before 2018, the minimum age of unemployed people in China was also 16 years old, but the upper limit was much lower than that in the United States, that is, men under 60 and women under 50. After the surveyed unemployment rate was implemented in 2018, in theory, there is no upper limit on the age of the unemployed, whether it is the registered unemployment rate or the surveyed unemployment rate. However, in practice, most of them are still controlled according to the previous age limit.

Obviously, the unemployment rate calculated in this case is low.

The second point is to register unemployment.

Before 2018, China used the registered unemployment rate instead of the internationally accepted surveyed unemployment rate, which was higher than the registered unemployment rate. Under the unemployment registration system, only the local non-agricultural population is registered, and the rural population is not registered. Only this point, the registered unemployment rate becomes a false data that cannot reflect the real unemployment situation. In addition, those who meet the unemployment conditions registered with the local human resources and social security department are counted as unemployed, and those who have not registered are not counted as unemployed. The situation of people without unemployment registration is more complicated. Some do not understand the relevant policies, some are afraid that unemployment registration will be unfavorable to their employment, some do not have time to register, some give up because of cumbersome registration procedures, and some do not meet the registration requirements. In some places, the unemployed with a master’s degree or above are not allowed to register. Since the registered unemployment rate involves the performance of the local government and affects the use of funds by the civil affairs department (later assigned to the social security department), the final data had to be compromised to a value acceptable to all parties, and eventually became a value that is acceptable to all parties at the central and local levels. False indicators of government performance requirements “compiled”.

Therefore, the method of registering the unemployment rate has been widely criticized, and it is considered that it does not reflect the real unemployment situation at all. After 2018, China officially announced that it has begun to align with international standards, adding a new surveyed unemployment rate, and publishing both the registered unemployment rate and the surveyed unemployment rate every month. However, since the official is unwilling to admit that the previously registered unemployment rate is false and cannot reflect the real unemployment situation at all, in order to smooth the transition, the newly adopted surveyed unemployment rate does not dare to change significantly from the registered unemployment rate, and the latter cannot be Negate the former, so as not to expose the unreal problem of unemployment that has existed for a long time in the past. Even before 2018, the data during the internal operation of the surveyed unemployment rate (the National Bureau of Statistics conducted surveys and statistics on the surveyed unemployment rate, but did not release it to the public) showed that the surveyed unemployment rate was twice or more than the registered unemployment rate. Letting the previous fake data not reveal the bottom, it is more proof that under the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, people live and work in peace and contentment, everyone has a job, and the unemployment rate is much lower than that of Western countries. In 2018, the first year of the surveyed unemployment rate, the national surveyed unemployment rate was 4.9% and the registered unemployment rate was 3.8%. The surveyed unemployment rate was only 1.1% higher than the registered unemployment rate. 1.6% higher in 2019, 1.0% higher in 2020, and 1.1% higher in 2021.

Obviously, the registered unemployment rate is not true, and the newly launched survey unemployment rate continues to be wrong due to path dependence.

Third, only count urban unemployment.

Note that China has no national unemployment rate data yet. The unemployment rate officially released and adopted by China is never the national unemployment rate, but only the urban unemployment rate. Before 2018, the official statistics and announcements were the urban registered unemployment rate. After 2018, the urban registered unemployment rate and the urban surveyed unemployment rate were also announced. Both of these unemployment figures only include urban and rural areas, and are not national survey unemployment rates that cover both urban and rural areas. In China’s employment statistics, first, all rural laborers over the age of 16 living in rural areas, regardless of whether they are employed or not, are counted as employment, and all are included in the employed population. The second is that migrant workers who go to cities to work and return to their hometowns are unemployed. Even if they return to their hometowns without a job, they will not be counted as unemployed people. That is, until today, in the eyes of Chinese officials, the urban population is counted as a human being, and the rural population is not counted as a human being. The urban population is unemployed and the rural population is unemployed. In a word, as long as the rural population is in the countryside, it is all counted as employment. Even if there are more unemployed people in rural China, it is considered to be unemployed.

In 2021, China’s employed population will be 770 million, including 290 million migrant workers, 170 million migrant workers, 120 million local workers, and 200 million farmers engaged in agricultural production in rural areas, accounting for more than half of China’s total employment. Unemployment of a group is not well included in the statistics. Of course, both the registered unemployment rate and the surveyed unemployment rate have major flaws, and the final data is of course seriously inaccurate. In addition, because migrant workers who work in cities have no fixed residence, they are highly mobile when they are unemployed, and are often missed in urban unemployment surveys, reducing the data on the unemployed.

Because of this, China’s official unemployment rate has been strongly questioned over the years. Scholars or institutions estimate the real unemployment rate in China at a minimum of 8% and a maximum of 30%, which is 1-6 times higher than the official unemployment rate. In 2008, the registered urban unemployment rate in the third quarter of 2008 announced by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of China was only 4.0%. At the same time, the “Social Blue Book” issued by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences stated that the urban unemployment rate in China had climbed to 9.4%. . Professor Zeng Xiangquan, former dean of the School of Labor and Human Resources of Renmin University of China and a member of the National Bureau of Statistics’ “Unemployment Survey” expert group, mentioned that during the internal operation of the National Bureau of Statistics’ survey on unemployment, the surveyed unemployment rate exceeded 20%, and the fourth in 2008 The quarterly rate was as high as 24%, which was six times the registered urban unemployment rate of 4% published by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security in 2008. In April 2020, Li Xunlei, chief economist of Zhongtai Securities, believed that the unemployment rate in the United States and the euro area has a clear negative correlation with the economic cycle, while China’s two sets of unemployment rate indicators-registered unemployment rate and surveyed unemployment rate The correlation between the rate and the economic cycle is not high, obviously deviating from the economic situation. Li Xunlei’s team calculated that in March 2020, the number of newly unemployed may have exceeded 70 million, and the corresponding unemployment rate is about 20.5%. The official surveyed urban unemployment rate in China is only 5.2%, and the urban registered unemployment rate is 4.2%. The unemployment rate data of Li Xunlei’s team is nearly 5 times higher than the official unemployment rate data, or the officials artificially lowered China’s unemployment rate to nearly one-fifth of the real data.

Institutions outside China feel the same way. In 2008, Taiwanese economists estimated that the unemployment rate in mainland China was above 30%, and the Asian Development Bank’s estimate was 34.3%. In 2018, an analysis by Fathom Consulting, a British financial consultancy, believed that the real unemployment rate in China was more than three times higher than the official figure.

Why fake it?

Fraud is profitable.

It stands to reason that in today’s world, unemployment is a normal social phenomenon, and there is nothing shameful.

Unemployment is a kind of helpless modern civilization. It was impossible for ancient people to be unemployed. Everyone leaves early and returns late, and they work hard and still have nothing to eat. How could they be unemployed? With the modern industrial revolution, the emergence of factories, companies, and industrial workers led to unemployment. In the West, there was a long-term hostility to the unemployed, thinking that a well-rounded and able-bodied person who did not go to work was lazy and did not deserve sympathy and help. In the 17th and 18th centuries, Britain had laws that would arrest the unemployed as idlers and put them in jail. In the United States, some states had laws that were hostile to the unemployed in the nineteenth century, and even today, some extreme right-wingers firmly oppose the government spending money to help the unemployed, thinking that unemployment benefits are to feed the lazy.

Later, the West began to regard unemployment as a social phenomenon that accompanies business operations, market fluctuations, and economic crises, and regard the unemployed as unlucky unlucky people rather than idlers. At the beginning of the 17th century, the Poor Law of England had begun to provide assistance to the unemployed. At the end of the 19th century, Germany began to implement unemployment insurance. In 1935, the Social Security Act of the United States began to establish an assistance system for the unemployed. After World War II, helping the unemployed and reducing unemployment has become one of the most important responsibilities of governments. In every election in a democratic country, there is a constant quarrel over how to reduce unemployment and relief for the unemployed, and the unemployment rate has become the core indicator for measuring the level of governance. Bad leadership. So, whether during the election or in power, unemployment is either a sore spot or a bragging rights for candidates.

Today, economists, investors and governments of democratic countries all over the world regard the unemployment rate as a barometer of a country’s economy, one of the basis for economic policy formulation, and a weather vane for monetary policy and investment decisions. important role in politics and economy. Therefore, the unemployment rate data must be true, true, and true again, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous.

However, Chinese officials have long believed that once the unemployment rate is real, it will be unimaginable, and it has even been secretive about unemployment for a long time. Why is this?

It turns out that Chinese officials call themselves Marxism. According to the basic principles of Marxism, unemployment is a phenomenon unique to capitalist society and the inevitable result of the contradiction between the private possession of means of production and socialized large-scale production. As soon as public ownership is implemented, private ownership is abolished, and communism or at least socialism is established, unemployment will naturally disappear. According to this Marxist fundamental tenet, in the official ideological propaganda of China, unemployment is an ugly phenomenon unique to capitalism, which can only occur in capitalist countries, and it is absolutely impossible for socialist countries to experience unemployment. In 1958, while announcing the completion of socialist transformation, Chinese officials announced to the world that “our country’s socialism has fundamentally eliminated unemployment”—since it is already a socialist society, it is a matter of course that there will be no unemployment. A remarkable achievement that proves the incomparable superiority of the socialist system. Since then, the government no longer recognizes the existence of unemployment in China. Unemployment has become a private part of the Chinese government, and it has been strictly covered up. No one can open it up, and even the word unemployment must not be mentioned, let alone unemployment rate, unemployment benefits, etc. . No matter how much unemployment there is in reality, it is not recognized that there is unemployment in China. There is no unemployment, or it is not recognized that there is unemployment, or it is not allowed to say that there is unemployment, which has become an official long-term political discipline. Lying and cheating become iron discipline.

Of course, this is an act of concealing one’s ears and deceiving oneself. How can there be no unemployment in modern society? However, in the Chinese official who is always “weiguangzheng”, the discipline of “unemployment does not exist in China” has been enforced for many years by coercing the government and people to lie. During this period, some people were punished for violating this discipline. The actual situation is that there is not a day without unemployment in Chinese society after 1949. Unemployment exists, but we don’t admit it, don’t let us say it, what should we do? During the planned economy period, the unemployed were called “blind straits”. Not only did they receive no assistance, but they were arrested as bad people and sent back to their places of origin for “reform through labor.” After 1978, a large number of unemployment occurred in cities and towns. According to the discipline, it is not allowed to be called unemployed, called “unemployed”. Unemployed young people are called “unemployed youth”. Unemployment in an enterprise shall not be called unemployment, it is called “laid-off” or “waiting for a job”.

It was not until after 1992 that China officially announced the establishment of a “socialist market economy” that China’s long-standing unemployment problem was shyly answered and officially recognized little by little. In 1994, the concept of “unemployment” was used, and “unemployed registration” was changed to “unemployment registration”. In 1996, the urban unemployment and employment statistics were carried out. In 1999, the Unemployment Insurance Regulations were promulgated, and the registered unemployment rate was introduced. In 2018, the urban survey unemployment rate was launched.

It is very clear that in the past, Chinese officials have long denied the existence of unemployment in China. Today, they use tens of thousands of investigators every month to laboriously conduct surveys and statistics on 120,000 households across the country, and finally launch a fake unemployment rate that does not reflect the real unemployment situation in China at all. , a “zombie data”, nothing more than for its own self-interest – in order to prove that the Marxist theory is extremely correct and can never be wrong. In order to prove that socialism is superior to capitalism, under socialism everyone has a job, under capitalism people can’t find a job and are destitute. In order to cover up the truth of China’s economic depression and the decline of all industries. In order to shirk the political responsibility of officially helping the unemployed, reducing unemployment and improving employment.

It’s okay to hide your ears and steal the bell

In order to maintain the rule and for their own selfishness, Chinese officials use a zombie data that they don’t even believe, castrated, and cannot reflect the real situation of unemployment in China. They deceive themselves and cover up their ears, which has brought and continues to bring huge benefits to Chinese society and the Chinese people. damage.

First, when will China’s unemployment rate become one of the barometers of China’s economy?

The unemployment rate is widely regarded as one of the most important economic data. The unemployment rate is not a predictor, but a lagging indicator, a measure of the overall state of the economy, through which the employment situation of the entire labor force can be judged in a certain period of time. As among all economic indicators, the unemployment rate is released monthly and is the first to be released, so it is considered to be the most sensitive to the overall macroeconomic conditions and has a monthly economic indicator in the sense of a weather vane. Therefore, the unemployment rate indicator is also considered to be the “jewel in the crown” of economic indicators. Whether the unemployment rate is real or not is related to the long-term prosperity of China’s economy, the vital interests of the common people, a number of important economic policies, and the responsibility and accountability of the government. It is not a trivial matter.

At present, out of selfish desire to maintain rule, China’s unemployment rate is in a zombie state. In fact, it is a useless indicator. It is not only unusable, but also harmful. It conveys wrong economic signals. This is a crime against the Chinese people.

This situation must be corrected.

Second, when will discrimination against the rural population end?

In 1958, China officially implemented the household registration system, which divided residents into two levels—urban and rural residents, and conducted classified registration and management in the form of non-agricultural household registration and agricultural household registration. Only with urban household registration can a person legally reside in urban areas and enjoy work, food supply, children’s schooling, housing, welfare, public medical care, etc., while rural household registration personnel can only engage in agricultural production in rural areas, and may not be allowed without approval. They are not allowed to work in cities and towns, their children are not allowed to go to school, and they are not allowed to enjoy social welfare and assistance in cities and towns. The artificial inequality created by China’s official user registration system between urban and rural areas in China far exceeds the inequality between races during apartheid in South Africa. China’s household registration system is the most vicious and appalling system in human history.

After 1978, China implemented reform and opening up, the household registration system was gradually broken, and the rural population was allowed to enter the cities to work and live. More than 300 million rural residents turned into urban residents and lived and lived in cities, with more than 170 million people every year. of the rural labor force to work in cities and towns. However, to this day, this discrimination system based on convenient rule has not been eliminated. It is reflected in the unemployment rate. The rural population and the urban population are still not treated as equals. The discriminatory policy against the rural population is still implemented, and the rural population is still treated as a human being. Look, the rural unemployed are not included in the statistics. Of course, as in the past, the government has found many reasons for this kind of discrimination. For example, they believe that the rural population has a piece of their own land at home. No matter the population who has been working in the countryside or the population who has been working in the cities and returned to the countryside, returning to the countryside will always be the case. If there is work, they will never starve to death, so they cannot be counted as unemployed. Such a reason is not worth refuting, not to mention that the current rate of land transfer in many rural areas is very high. In some areas, the land transfer rate exceeds 50%, and there is no land to plant after returning home. Even if there is land to plant, there are enough left-behind laborers in rural areas. The income from farming in rural areas is now meager, which is simply not enough to support the family. The cities and towns are still unemployed, and the migrant workers who return home from unemployment will have the opportunity to find employment? Excluding the rural population from unemployment statistics is not simply a matter of statistical caliber or statistical error, but a blatant discrimination and crime.

When will the rural unemployed be included in unemployment statistics?

Third, when will the “missed” unemployed receive assistance?

The fake unemployment rate means that tens of millions of unemployed laborers are not included in the unemployment rate data when registering unemployment and investigating unemployment. What’s more, they are ignored when making economic policy. These unemployed people are not getting the attention, care and assistance they deserve at the most difficult time of their lives. The fake unemployment rate not only makes many unemployed people disappear one by one, but also makes them untouchables in this country. Even, because of their existence, these unemployed people who are artificially “missed” may be discriminated against because of the beautiful data that has been artificially created, the “great situation” is smeared, and the leaders at all levels are troubled. Suppress or even hurt.

Here, we would like to ask the Chinese official:

When will the Chinese get a real unemployment rate?

When will all the unemployed, regardless of urban or rural areas, be included in the unemployment data?

When will all the unemployed, regardless of urban or rural areas, receive institutional assistance instead of being “left out”?

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