China aims to help an additional 9 million urban people find jobs and keep the registered urban unemployment rate below 4.6 percent in 2006, a senior government official said in Beijing on Tuesday.

Tian Chengping, minister of Labor and Social Security, also said at a national conference that China had overfulfilled the employment target of 2005.

"About 9.35 million urban residents found jobs in the first 11 months, which accounts for 104 percent of the annual employment target," said Tian.

(Xinhua News Agency December 20, 2005)