Li urges measures to vouchsafe livelihoods

Efforts made to support market entities, stabilize employment, prices, he says

Premier Li Keqiang called on Wednesday for efforts to effectively coordinate pandemic response and socioeconomic development and step up implementing policies on stabilizing the economic growth to enable the economy to remain within a reasonable range in the fourth quarter.

Li made the remarks while chairing a meeting held to advance the work to stabilize the Chinese economy in the fourth quarter.

He said that due to unexpected factors, China's economy declined markedly in the second quarter.