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    CHENGDU, Feb. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Southwest China's Sichuan Province reported significant rises in the per capita incomes of urban and rural residents in 2005, a latest report on the local economic development said.

    In 2005 the per capita net income of local farmers reached 2,800 yuan (350 U.S. dollars), up 8.6 percent year-on-year, it said.

    In the meantime, the per capita disposable income of the urbanites averaged 8,386 yuan (1,048 U.S. dollars), up 8.8 percent year-on-year.

    In the past five years, the province created 2.3 million new jobs in the urban areas and helped 1.51 million laid-off workers find employment.

    The registered urban unemployment rate was 4.6 percent at the end of 2005. Enditem