Li calls for efforts to revitalise economic growth

Premier Li Keqiang has called for unrelenting efforts to protect market players and create jobs while coping with uncertain factors during the course of development, saying that China’s economy can attain positive growth this year.

In remarks delivered during an inspection trip to Chongqing on Thursday and Friday, he acknowledged the positive outcomes in macroeconomic regulation in recent months, especially in the prioritised areas of protecting jobs and market players, ensuring people’s livelihoods and the security of grain and energy supply, and guaranteeing the stability of industry and supply chains and the functioning of grassroots government bodies.

China has set the goal of creating more than nine million urban jobs this year and ensuring the survival of over 100 million market players amid the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.

During the visit, Li spoke with over a dozen executives of smaller firms at the administrative hall in the Liangjiang New Area.

He also highlighted the need for further widening market access and stimulating the vitality of market players.

Li lauded the online administrative services offered by local authorities, saying that the government, in its efforts to streamline administration and bolster compliance oversight and services, is aiming to provide the people with a pleasant experience and enough sense of gain as they access administrative services.