BEIJING, June 14 (Reuters) - Job creation remained solid in China over the first five months of the year, with 5.99 million new urban jobs, a spokeswoman for the nation's statistics bureau said Wednesday

China's survey-based jobless rate both nationwide and in 31 major cities remained below 5 percent in May, National Bureau of Statistics spokeswoman Liu Aihua said Wednesday. (Reporting by Kevin Yao; Writing by Elias Glenn; Editing by Kim Coghill)