Li vows anew to ease market access

Premier Li Keqiang vowed on Wednesday to further lower the threshold to market access for business startups and innovative companies in a bid to create more jobs.

More than 15,000 companies are registered every day around the nation, but only 70 percent of them are actively operating, Li said while meeting with managers of high-tech companies at the Global Entrepreneurial Leaders Forum in Shenzhen, an industrial hub in Guangdong province.

The government will streamline administrative procedures and further open the market for enterprises, including foreign companies, he added.