AI Data Insight
In 2025, the total number of employed persons in China fell to 725 million, a significant decrease of 9.35 million from the previous figure. This marks the second consecutive year of decline with an expanding magnitude, and the total volume has hit a new low since 2000. Although the surveyed urban unemployment rate remained at a relatively low level of 5.2%, constrained by negative population growth and a wave of retirements due to aging, the structural contraction of labor supply has become an irreversible trend.