The government will control excess liquidity and further boost domestic consumption, Wen said.

Stocks earlier gained on expectations the government may raise the amount of money foreign investors can use to buy domestic equities.

The regulator of foreign exchange on March 3 granted a quota of US$50 million to Shinko Securities Co, a Japanese brokerage, bringing up to US$9.99 billion the amount of money available to foreign investors to invest in yuan securities.

The approved quota brings the total close to the current ceiling of US$10 billion under the qualified foreign institutional investors, or QFII, program.

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