[national standing Committee: providing diversified relay financial services for science and technology enterprises in the whole life cycle]-- Li Qiang presided over an executive meeting of the State Council on 16 June to examine and approve the "Action Plan to increase efforts to support the financing of Science and Technology Enterprises." The meeting stressed the need to guide financial institutions to further optimize their products, markets, and service systems according to the different needs of scientific and technological enterprises at different stages of development, so as to provide diversified relay financial services throughout the life cycle for scientific and technological enterprises. It is necessary to give top priority to supporting scientific and technological enterprises in the start-up stage, and speed up the formation of a financial service support system dominated by equity investment and a linkage of "stock, loan and debt protection". It is necessary to strengthen the construction of infrastructure such as evaluation standards for scientific and technological innovation, intellectual property transactions, and credit information systems. It is necessary to co-ordinate financing support and risk prevention, and effectively maintain financial stability.