His remarks at a day-long CBI conference in London were aimed at the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, who is due to tell the same conference that he will keep Britain in the EU, a pledge aimed at easing business fears over his plans to raise taxes.
China's economy expanded by 7.4% last year from 7.7% in 2013, following a cooling of the property market, slowing factory activity and easing business and government investment.
The hotly debated minimum wage increase aims to give working families a shot at economic security, while easing businesses into the increase.
And the steps to ease business finance were small ones.
Many, rich and poor, accepted the inevitability of paying bribes to the police, government inspectors and minor bureaucrats to obtain permits, ease business transactions or avoid traffic summonses.
As the government spurs the two sides towards an accord, growth and employment figures clearly show that, though labour law could do with being eased, business has often managed to get round it.
These supply problems explain why the interest rates faced by businesses and households have stayed stubbornly high even though the Bank of England has cut its lending rate to 0.5% and launched two rounds of quantitative easing, in which government bonds were bought with newly created money, lowering their interest rates.Many attempts have been made to ease business credit.
He hopes that tensions will ease, business will return, and life will reach a relative calm but he is not optimistic.
Originally built to automate industry, to ease business interactions for remote employees or to simply entertain, robotic technologies are taking on a significantly nobler purpose: assisting those with disabilities in their day-to-day lives.
Ionic Security's backers, including previous investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, ffVenture Capital, Tech Operators, and additional new investor Webb Investment Network, believe Ionic's distributed approach to addressing security issues can ease businesses' concerns.
In places with bad roads, few trains and parlous land lines, they substitute for travel, allow price data to be distributed more quickly and easily, enable traders to reach wider markets and generally ease the business of doing business.
