China's registered unemployment rate in urban areas stood at 4.04 percent at the end of March, down from 4.05 percent at the end of 2015, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said on Friday. 
An additional 3.18 million urban jobs were created in the first three months of 2016, Xinhua News Agency quoted ministry spokesperson Li Zhong as saying. 
China aims to provide more than 10 million new urban jobs in 2016 and keep the registered urban unemployment rate below 4.5 percent, according to the government work report to the annual parliamentary session in March.