Unemployment Rate in China decreased to 4.02 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016 from 4.04 percent in the third quarter of 2016. Unemployment Rate in China averaged 4.12 percent from 2002 until 2016, reaching an all time high of 4.30 percent in the fourth quarter of 2003 and a record low of 3.90 percent in the third quarter of 2002.