China's urban unemployment rate stood at 4.1 percent at the end of March, with 9.09 million people registered unemployed, said Yin Chengji, spokesman of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, on April 26.

In urban areas, 3.03 million jobs were created in the first three months and 1.33 million laid-off workers were re-employed in the January-March period, said Yin.

The government aims to keep the urban registered unemployment rate below 4.6 percent and create more than 9 million jobs in 2011.