1.工业经济增长强劲但就业却明显不足。2002年前三季度,我国城镇单位就业人数比2001年同期减少362.3万人,尽管比前两季度减少量在缩小,但就业的绝对量继续下降;三季度末,城镇单位就业人数为11005.3万人,比2001年末减少160.5万人。据劳动和社会保障部统计,2001年底城镇国有企业下岗职工515万人,非国有企业 1. The strong growth of the industrial economy, however, is clearly not enough for employment. In the first three quarters of 2002, the number of employed people in urban units in China dropped by 3.623 million over the same period of 2001. Although the decrease was smaller than the previous two quarters, the absolute amount of employment continued to decline. At the end of the third quarter, the number of employed persons in urban units was 110.053 million , A decrease of 1.665 million from the end of 2001. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, 5.15 million laid-off workers from state-owned enterprises in cities and towns were owned by non-state-owned enterprises