BEIJING - China's job market continued stable development last year thanks to government efforts to stabilize employment, and steady economic growth.

Some 13.61 million new jobs were created in 2018, up 100,000 from a year ago, said Lu Aihong, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, at a press briefing Thursday.

Two main jobless indicators stayed within the safe range. The registered unemployment rate, at 3.8 percent, fell to a low level in recent years, while the surveyed rate came in at 4.9 percent, down from 5 percent a year earlier.