Jane Chen / Shanghai Daily news

Shanghai will keep a promise it made at the start of the year to add 500,000 jobs this year and to keep the jobless rate at around 4.6 percent.
By the end of last month, the city had created 640,000 jobs, already beating the goal, said Jiao Yang, spokesperson with Shanghai Municipal Government, this afternoon at the regular government press conference.
The number of the jobless in November was 273,000, 28,000 fewer than at the end of last year, she added.
In the job campaign, Shanghai has created jobs for 163,000 people in rural areas, and for more than 5,000 crippled people, she said.  About 12,000 low-income workers have found work and earned their way out of poverty.
Encouraging of small businesses has become a highlight of Shanghai's job campaign, Jiao noted.  The government has increased loans to private enterprise and provided guidance and services to help the jobless to start a business of their own.
By the end of November, 29,000 privately-run businesses involving 266,000 people were opened in the city.
The government has also formed a job-help group to help people in job finding or business start-up.  Currently with about 5,000 people, the group will expand to cover all the rural areas of the city by the year's end, Jiao said.