sabah state official: tourist destination hopes to learn from "chinese story" to achieve industrial "take-off"
2024-08-31
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china news service, kota kinabalu, august 31, title: sabah state officials: tourist destinations hope to learn from the "chinese story" to achieve industrial "take-off"
china news service reporter chen yue
"without industry, there is no wealth." - in an interview with china news service, phong chin-che, minister of industry and entrepreneurship development of sabah state, malaysia, quoted a famous chinese saying. he said that sabah is familiar to chinese people as a tourist destination; currently, the state government is actively promoting the transformation of sabah's industries from traditional raw material industries to manufacturing and raw material deep processing industries, striving to achieve industrial "take-off". "this is the path that china has taken in its 40 years of reform and opening up, and it is a successful experience and story that sabah should learn from."
feng jinzhe said that in order to actively promote the development of sabah's manufacturing industry, he and the department he leads are promoting sabah to strengthen economic and trade exchanges and cooperation with china, hoping to attract more chinese companies to invest in sabah. "i just came back from jilin province, china, and the two sides (sabah and jilin) are carrying out very meaningful cooperation."
in feng jinzhe's view, the cooperation between sabah and jilin can promote the export of sabah's specialty products such as durian and bird's nest to jilin, and can also help sabah's industry upgrade from exporting raw materials to deep processing of raw materials. he gave an example that jilin has a solid foundation in the fields of chinese herbal medicine processing and health care product production; sabah has ancient virgin forests and rich biodiversity, and there are many chinese herbal plants and tropical plants for further development. feng jinzhe hopes that through the cooperation between the two places, sabah-branded health care products and chinese herbal medicine products can be developed and brought to the world.
"in addition to jilin province, sabah has also actively carried out industrial cooperation with chinese provinces such as jiangxi, anhui and guangdong." feng jinzhe introduced that the sabah government and the ministry of industry and entrepreneurship development will also hold the first sabah-china business summit and sabah china expo in the capital kota kinabalu from november 22 to november 24 this year in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between malaysia and china.
feng jinzhe introduced that the summit is expected to set up more than 200 booths, hoping to attract chinese companies to invest in sabah, assist sabah companies to go global and promote more sabah products to china. "we warmly invite chinese companies to participate in the exhibition. they can see sabah's beautiful natural landscape, rich natural resources, excellent investment environment and the sabah state government's determination to develop the manufacturing industry through the exhibition."
feng jinzhe is full of confidence when it comes to sabah's attractiveness to chinese companies. he said that semporna, known as the "diving paradise", the sunset at tanjong aru beach, known as the "most beautiful sunset", and the famous "mount kinabalu" are all well-known attractions in sabah to the chinese people, and "sabah is not unfamiliar to chinese friends". sabah also has convenient transportation links with china, with more than 80 flights per week between sabah and many cities in china; at the same time, sabah has excellent ports and the "shortest sea route" from malaysia to china, which is enough to become an important gateway for chinese companies to enter malaysia and radiate the asean market. "this has laid a solid foundation for our two places to carry out closer trade, cultural exchanges and people-to-people exchanges."
feng jinzhe specifically pointed out that malaysia and china are both members of the regional comprehensive economic partnership (rcep), and the preferential tariffs under the rcep framework also make sabah more competitive in attracting chinese companies.
"through exchanges between governments and between enterprises, i hope that sabah and china can strengthen industrial cooperation and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results," feng jinzhe said. (end)
