BEIJING — China will take more measures to improve government services and facilitate the financing by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the State Council's executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang decided on Dec 14.

The country will optimize the government service hotlines to meet the needs of companies and the public, according to the meeting.

The meeting also decided to implement unified registration of movable property and rights guarantee throughout the country starting from next year to help ease the financing strain of companies, especially the SMEs.