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(L-R) Loo Kok Seong, The 8th MCEC Organizing Chairman; Hew Tse Hou, Consulate-General of Malaysia in Shanghai; YB Dato\u2019 Teng Chang Khim, Executive Councillor of Selangor State; Tan Yew Sing, The President of MCCC; YB Dr Ong Kian Ming, Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry of Malaysia; Hong Hui Min, Vice Chairman of Chinese People\u2019s Political Consultative Conference cum Principal Committee of Jiangsu Provincial National Democratic Construction Association; Yan Hua, Deputy Mayor of the People\u2019s Government of Nanjing; Ma Ming Long, Director-General of the Department of Commerce of Jiangsu Province; Zhau Jian Nong, Vice Chairman of the Overseas Chinese Federation cum Chairman of Jiangsu Overseas Chinese Federation and Kong Qiu Yun, Director of Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Commerce.<\/p>\n
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September 19, 2018.<\/p>\n
NANJING : The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) is focused on the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) and helping small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) reduce their dependence on foreign labour, said Deputy Minister Dr Ong Kian Ming.<\/p>\n
“This is one of the key strategies we are looking at in Budget 2019,” he told\u00a0Bernama\u00a0<\/em>after attending the opening ceremony of the 8th Malaysia-China Entrepreneur Conference (MCEC 2018) here, today.<\/p>\n The 2019 Budget is set to be announced in Parliament on Nov 2, the first under the new Pakatan Harapan government.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the MCEC 2018 is a bilateral trade event in collaboration with the Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Commerce.<\/p>\n The event is endorsed by MITI, the Treasury, Ministry of Tourism and Culture Malaysia, the Malaysia Consulate General in Shanghai and Secretariat for the Advancement of Malaysia Entrepreneurs (SAME) under the Prime Minister’s Department.<\/p>\n It is also fully supported by the Department of Commerce of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Municipal People’s Government and Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese of Jiangsu Province.<\/p>\n Ong praised MCEC\u2019s organiser, the Malaysia-China Chamber of Commerce (MCCC), for pushing bilateral trade, as he foresaw the event being held in Malaysia next year to attract more Chinese SMEs.<\/p>\n “We will see whether they can invest and collaborate with local partners to bring in their technology and use Malaysia as the gateway to ASEAN,” he said.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Ong said SMEs generally had limited capital for big investments, thus both countries should collaborate to find new ways of doing businesses.<\/p>\n “We try to see whether we can facilitate, but it is more important at this point in time for us to understand the challenges first,” he added.<\/p>\n MCCC President Tan Yew Sing hoped the conference would establish a platform for connecting, communicating and cooperation between Malaysian and China\u2019s SMEs, especially in Nanjing.<\/p>\n He said Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir\u2019s visit to China was to enlighten the government on the new Malaysian government\u2019s policies and ideas.<\/p>\n Tan said as a robust developing country, Malaysia was in need of research and development (R&D) manpower with advanced knowledge and experience, and it was necessary to strengthen the exchange of talent with R&D talents in China.<\/p>\n “China is very advanced in technologies such as mobile payment, e-commerce, biotechnology, agricultural-based industries, artificial intelligence and financial technology, and the country has an abundant R&D manpower,” Ong added.<\/p>\n Source: 2. The Star<\/p>\n 3. The Edge Markets<\/p>\n 4. The Sun Daily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NANJING : The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) is focused on the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) and helping small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) reduce their dependence on foreign labour, said Deputy Minister Dr Ong Kian Ming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activity-reports-en"],"yoast_head":"\n
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