Numbers on Jul.27-Aug.2 6.29 million There were 6.29 million newly created job opportunities in the first half of 2007, said the Ministry of Labor and Social Security. During this period, 2.79 million laid-off workers found new jobs while 740,000 people struggling to find work were employed from January to June. By the end of June, the registered unemployment rate in urban areas stood at 4.1 percent, a decline of 0.1 percentage points compared with the same period last year. 162 million China had had 162 million Web users by the end of June, said the China Internet Network Information Center. Among the total, the number of broadband netizens was 122 million and that of mobile phone netizens 44.3 million. In the first half, there were 100 new Web users every minute on average and there was one netizen among every four mobile phone subscribers. Currently 1.21 million Web sites operate in China. 501.6 million The number of mobile phone users had reached 501.6 million by the end of June, according to the Ministry of Information Industry. This means that for every 100 people, 38.3 had mobile phones. The number of mobile phone users increased by 40.56 million since the end of last year, an average of 6.76 million a month. The total number of text messages sent by cell phones was 279 billion, up 37.5 percent year on year. Meanwhile, fixed-phone users only grew by 4.86 million, for a total of 372 million.