POWER BOOM: Workers at the Xinjiang Wubei Power Sub-station inspect facilities. Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has enhanced electricity generation this year to meet growing power demands outside the region (JIANG WENYAO)

4.1%

China's registered urban unemployment rate was 4.1 percent at the end of June, with 9.08 million people registered as unemployed, said the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.

2.41 trillion yuan

Profits of China's industrial enterprises above the designated size—annual revenue of 20 million yuan ($3.1 million)—rose 28.7 percent year on year to 2.41 trillion yuan ($374 billion) in the first half of this year, said the National Bureau of Statistics.