The unemployment rate in Hong Kong has fallen to 3.8%for six consecutive months, and returns to the beginning of the epidemic.
Comprehensive Hong Kong News Agency and the Internet media "Hong Kong 01" reported that the Hong Kong SAR Government Statistics Office announced on Thursday (November 17) that Hong Kong's unemployment rate from August to October this year was 3.8%, which is from July from July to JulyBy September, the unemployment rate was 3.9%, a decrease of 0.1 percentage points, falling for six consecutive months, and the level from December 2019 to February 2020.
According to statistics, the total number of employment in Hong Kong increased by about 19,700 to 3.6486 million; the number of unemployed people decreased by about 7,900 to 147,400.
According to industry analysis, the total unemployment rate of consumer and tourism -related industries (that is, retail, accommodation and dietary services) fell 0.6 percentage points to 5.2%.Among them, the unemployment rate of the catering service activity industry fell 0.8 percentage points to 5.4%, and the retail industry unemployment rate fell 0.5 percentage points to 5.2%.The unemployment rate of multiple other industries has also fallen, especially for building decoration, repair and maintenance.
Sun Yuzheng, director of the Hong Kong Government Labor and Welfare Bureau, said that the short -term prospects of the labor market will depend on the performance of Hong Kong economic activities.The tightening of the financial situation will continue to suppress demand, but as long as the epidemic is continuously controlled, the epidemic prevention measures are moderately relaxed, and the help of the consumer coupon plan, economic activities should gradually return to normal.
Huang Guo, a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, said that the unemployment rate declines within the expected. Due to the gradual relaxation of the restrictions on epidemic prevention measures in Hong Kong, the market is re -entered; it is expected that the unemployment rate will continue to decline for a period of time.
Huang Guo pointed out that under the epidemic, some people have reduced their income or increase their work pressure and withdraw from the labor market. Therefore, the employment population is still less than before the epidemic.
The Hong Kong Social Welfare Department announced the number of the latest CSSA on the 17th. In October, the case of collecting CSSA's overall collection fell 802 compared with September, and the monthly decline was 0.4%.As of the end of October, there were more than 208,000 CSSA cases, and the total number of aid was more than 290,000.
