Li: Markets to open wider for foreign firms

Premier assures visiting German Chancellor Merkel that prospects for investment in China are promising

China will further expand its market openness so that foreign business owners and joint ventures registered in China will enjoy the same treatment as their Chinese counterparts, Premier Li Keqiang said on Friday.

Li made the comment to assure visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel and German business executives on Friday at a meeting with the Chinese-German Economic Advisory Committee in Hefei, the capital of eastern China's Anhui province. It was the first time that Li had invited a foreign leader to visit his home province.