Economics
Vast Numbers of Unemployed Will Undermine China’s Recovery
- Industrial output, unemployment, retail data due Friday
- Over 130 million lost work or were furloughed: BNP Paribas
A worker pushes a wheel barrow past a construction site for a secondary school at Hangzhou Bay New Zone in Ningbo, China, on April 26.
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Millions of Chinese people are being thrown out of work by the collapse in global demand and a slow restart of the domestic economy. A lack of clarity about exactly how many is making it harder to gauge the chances for recovery.