Li: Finance needed for businesses

Premier says small companies are leading forces for employment

Premier Li Keqiang called to fully implement supportive measures for private and small businesses, including ways to ease their burdens in getting financed, during an inspection tour in Jiangsu province that concluded on Friday.

On Thursday and Friday, Li visited several banks and companies in Nantong and Nanjing during his tour of Jiangsu, which had the second-largest GDP among provincial regions last year.