Chinese Premier Li Keqiang presided over a meeting with experts and business leaders on Monday to seek opinions on the government work report, which will be officially unveiled in March.

Cases in which clients' bank deposits have disappeared have triggered a call for Chinese banks to strengthen internal management and for deposito rs to be wary of interest rates that are much higher than benchmark figures.

Profits of Chinese industrial businesses hit 6.47 trillion yuan (1.05 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2014, up 3.3 percent year on year, official data showed on Tuesday.