Between January 1 and May 25, the city's Employment Service Centre received 68,424 applications for unemployment benefits, down 24.2 per cent from a year earlier.
The number of approved beneficiaries fell 27.5 per cent year-on-year to 56,886, while more than 275,000 people reported their job-search status during the period.
According to the centre, the decline was driven by improving economic conditions, which encouraged businesses to increase recruitment to meet production and business needs.
Officials also attributed the trend to enhanced job-matching services and labour market information programmes that helped unemployed workers find new jobs more quickly.
The centre said it had provided vocational training and skills-upgrading consultations to 2,252 unemployment benefit recipients seeking to improve their employment prospects.
It also organised 83 job fairs and recruitment events during the first five months of the year, helping jobseekers reconnect with the labour market more efficiently.
