Statistical Communique on China's 2014 National Economic and Social Development

The employment continued to grow. At the end of 2014, the number of employed people in China was 772.53 million, and that in urban areas was 393.10 million. The newly increased employed people in urban areas numbered 13.22 million. The registered urban unemployment rate was 4.09 percent at the year end. The total number of migrant workers[6] in 2014 was 273.95 million, up by 1.9 percent over that of 2013. Of which, the migrant workers who left hometown and worked in other places were 168.21 million, increased by 1.3 percent, and those who worked in their own localities reached 105.74 million, up by 2.8 percent.

The labor productivity increased steadily. The overall labor productivity[7] was 72,313 yuan per person in 2014, an increase of 7 percent compared with that in 2013.

The prices increased slightly. The consumer prices in 2014 went up by 2.0 percent over the previous year. Of this total, the prices for food went up by 3.1 percent. The prices for investment in fixed assets increased by 0.5 percent. The producer prices and the purchasing prices for manufactured goods were down by 1.9 percent and 2.2 percent respectively. The producer prices for farm products[8] were down by 0.2 percent.

Table 2: Changes of Consumer Prices in 2014
Unit: %
Item	National Average
		Urban	Rural
General level of consumer prices	2.0	2.1	1.8
Food	3.1	3.3	2.6
Tobacco, liquor and articles	-0.6	-0.7	-0.5
Clothing	2.4	2.4	2.4
Household facilities, articles and maintenance services	1.2	1.2	1.2
Medical, health and personal articles	1.3	1.2	1.5
Transportation and telecommunications	-0.1	-0.2	0.0
Recreation, education, culture articles and services	1.9	1.9	1.7
Housing	2.0	2.1	1.9

Out of the 70 large and medium-sized cities, the number of cities showed a year-on-year rise in sales prices of new commercial residential buildings in each month of the first half year was 69 and then decreased month by month in the second half. The number was 2 in December, whereas 68 cities experienced an annual decline.