KUALA LUMPUR: YB Datuk Chua Tee Yong, Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry (MITI) said that China will import goods worth USD 2 trillion from the countries and regions along the Belt and Road (China International Import Expo).
The upcoming MCEC 2017 will be held on November 25th (Saturday) at the Putrajaya International Convention Center (PICC).
“The uniqueness of the Malaysia-China Entrepreneur Conference 2017 (MCEC 2017) is that this Conference is about Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It will be conducted bilingually and have many business matching sessions,” YB Datuk Chua commented.
This year’s conference also lined up another two themed seminars, one of them is themed ‘Togetherness’ on the Belt and Road initiative and the other seminar for young entrepreneurs themed ‘Creation’. The ‘Togetherness’ seminar will invite business representatives from Malaysia and China to share business idea on mutual trade, mutual creation and mutual benefit while ‘Creation’ seminar as a pioneering youth forum will invite professionals and youth to share on innovation and entrepreneurship.
MCEC 2017 business matching sessions are divided into one-to-one business matching and networking style business matching to meet the different needs of participating enterprises. The Conference focuses on 7 industries at MCEC 2017, namely real estate and construction, agriculture, science, technology, manufacturing, services, health care and Halal products.
“We need the ‘new four’, namely ‘new industries, new targets, new tools, and new thinking’,” MCCC President Tan Yew Sing said.
“Let’s look at the ‘new industries’. Malaysian entrepreneurs should discover how to cooperate with China’s emerging industries and play their part in cross-border cooperation. The ‘new targets’ are non-Mandarin-speaking businessmen and local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) which have cooperation potential with the China enterprises,” Tan pointed out.
“From the four ancient inventions to the ‘new four inventions’, namely mobile payment, bicycle sharing, high-speed rail and e-commerce, the four ‘new tools’ mark that China has moved from physical invention to virtual invention,” Tan added.
At present, China is gradually moving towards ‘cashless society’.
“Technology has changed the way people travel; bicycle sharing is a typical case. China has several bike sharing companies. With Global Positioning System (GPS) and QR code, the bike sharing companies make biking easier,” Tan said.
In addition, China had put 2,595 high-speed trains into operation by the end of 2016, accounting for 60 percent of global high-speed trains. It had surpassed 20,000 kilometers of high-speed rail lines with a target of adding another 10,000 kilometers by 2020 and surpassing 45,000 kilometers by 2030.
“We are targeting 1000 Malaysian participants and 500 overseas participants for this event, mainly from China and other countries in Asia,” MCEC 2017 Organizing Chairman, Bryan Chong said.
“One of our confirmed participants is Yang Zhi Jiang Medical which is one of the leading manufacturers of Generic Medicine in China with the aim of expanding their business in Malaysia. Apart from that, we are pending confirmation from a few GLCs and enterprises from China who have expressed their great interest to participate in MCEC 2017, in particular joining the property and construction sector business matching,” Bryan added.
Bryan urged all Malaysian enterprises and young entrepreneurs to grab this opportunity, to submit early registration for MCEC 2017 as opportunities are in abundance. The seats for ‘one-to-one’ business matching are limited and thus he hoped that the interested parties can register as soon as possible to get the early-bird discount.
“We have tentatively decided to organize business visits to Melaka Gateway and Port Klang Free Zone,” Bryan said.
The upcoming MCEC 2017 is still open to public participants, to join us in building the ‘Belt and Road’, and creating new opportunities. For Malaysian participants, a full-day conference (including registration fee, one-to-one business matching + networking style business matching, and networking dinner) is RM500 before August 31, 2017; and RM700 after August 31, 2017.
For any enquiries, please contact the Secretariat of the conference at 03-92231188, or email to mcec@mccc.my.
