China has seen a steady recovery in newly added jobs in recent months amid containment of the COVID-19 epidemic, according to the Minister of Human Resources and Social Security. While employment was affected by the epidemic during the first several months of the year, it has stabilized amid government efforts to add jobs, said Zhang Jinan in an interview with Xinhua. The country created around a million urban jobs on a monthly basis recently, as compared with only 390,000 newly added jobs in February when the epidemic severely hit the country, Zhang noted. In the first half of this year, China added a total of 5.64 ... (full story)