Beijing, China's national capital, had registered 60,200 unemployed people in 2002, with an unemployment rate of 1.35 percent, below the target rate of 2.0 percent, according to the city's statistical bureau.
The bureau says in its annual report that last year, the government job agency, the five-year old "re-employment service center," ceased its operation, since the city had set up a social security insurance program to guarantee the normal life of the jobless, low-income families and retirees.
Meanwhile, a medical care system has also been set up.
(Xinhua News Agency February 6, 2003)
