China will continue to encourage foreign companies to invest and do business in China, and ensure that all companies have equal access ...
and equal treatment," Li Keqiang told business leaders and politicians in the northeastern Chinese city of Dalian.
His remarks came after Chinese authorities targeted foreign firms including pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline in a series of anti-graft investigations, while other multinational and domestic companies were targeted in a price-monitoring probe.
China's government said the investigations were aimed at rooting out corruption and lowering prices for consumers, but analysts said foreign companies were unfairly targeted as an example to local firms.
The European Chamber of Commerce in Beijing earlier this month said China was at risk of creating "unfair and inconsistent enforcement" of anti-corruption rules.
Known as the "Summer Davos", the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Dalian, on China's northeast coast, brings together around 1,