Souvenir: Deputy Director of Department of Commerce of Guizhou Province in China, Shen Xinguo (sixth from right) presents a souvenir to Dato’ Joseph Lim (fifth from right).

1 June 2018

Kuala Lumpur: With the in-depth development of the Belt and Road Initiative, Malaysia and China will have more co-operation opportunities in brand-new agricultural products, food processing, and eco-tourism industries as Malaysia is an agricultural producing country and Guizhou Province in China is transforming into smart agriculture.

A delegation led by Shen Xinguo, Deputy Director of the Department of Commerce of Guizhou Province in China, paid a visit to the Malaysia-China Chamber of Commerce (MCCC) and said that through the Belt and Road Initiative, Guizhou Province hopes to promote its local products overseas. At the same time, it will explore ways to bring Malaysian agricultural products to Guizhou and other parts of China so that the Chinese can enjoy the unique taste of tropical agricultural products.

“We have high expectation that the Internet will break the barriers of the national borders, especially the mutual access to the economy and trade, and break the marketing model of the traditional marketing. In the future, it will be based on innovation and have more breakthroughs,” Shen said.

Vice President of the MCCC, Dato’ Joseph Lim, is optimistic that the unique Malaysian food can quickly capture the hearts and minds of the people in Guizhou once the food is introduced by Guizhou Provincial Department of Commerce and local Chinese enterprises.

“Our country’s agricultural products such as durian, bird’s nest, and Bak Kut Teh are all well-known food that Malaysia is proud of. It is worth introducing in Guizhou Province,” Dato’ Joseph said.

In-depth co-operation with Guizhou

At present, Guizhou Province imports more than 100 containers of agricultural products into Malaysia. Dato’ Joseph Lim said to take advantage of this opportunity to export the Malaysian products when returning the container to Guizhou to achieve a win-win situation.

Dato’ Joseph added that Malaysia and Guizhou Province can also jointly develop the tourism industry that uses natural ecology as a selling point. Next, Guizhou Province will improve the quality of services such as tourism, retirement, housekeeping, logistics, insurance, etc. This move and the ecotourism that Malaysia advertises with its rich natural ecology, rare species of wild animals, and unexplored primitive tropical rainforests constitute mutual benefits.