Measures will help ease firms' financing woes

Boosting employment high on State Council economic agenda

China will take effective measures to ease private enterprises' difficulties in getting financing and ensure full employment, among its efforts to ensure stable and healthy economic development, Premier Li Keqiang said on Thursday during a meeting of the State Council.

Greater reduction in taxes and fees will help enterprises and boost industrial upgrading, Li said. More job opportunities should be cultivated to boost the development of new economic drivers, focusing on key groups and diverse ways of creating new jobs that will create more social wealth, he said.