At the entrance to Johor Bahru of the Western Malaysia Expressway, many high-level Malaysian government officials as well as well-known figures in the business circles of Hong Kong, Taiwan and ASEAN have gathered.
After several years of construction, the section from Kuala Lumpur to Johor Bahru of the Western Expressway has been completed and will be officially opened to traffic today.
Starting today, it only takes more than three hours to drive from Johor Bahru to Kuala Lumpur, which greatly facilitates the people along the route and will also help the economic development along the route to a higher level.
Malay Prime Minister Hu Keen delivered a speech at the opening ceremony, thanking East Asia Holdings and Nanlong Holdings for their support of Malay transportation construction, and also thanked all the construction personnel who have built this expressway in recent years.
Participating in the ribbon-cutting ceremony were Hu Kern, Malay Transport Minister Palog, Li Guobao, Liu Xiaoyan, and General Manager of the Western Expressway Company Zeng Xiabin.
Of course, Malaysia's invitation to such business people is obviously not just for the expressway opening ceremony, but more to attract investment.
Therefore, the entire ceremony was not long. In order not to waste these people's time, we did not invite everyone to take a ride on the expressway. Instead, we directly invited everyone to get on the bus and return to the conference hall of Xinhui Hotel in downtown Johor Bahru.
Malay’s development goal in the next few years is very clear, which is to build Johor Bahru into the headquarters center of financial electronic semiconductors and Malay.
Nanxin City under Johor Bahru County is built as a shipping and chemical industry center, and Xiangfei City under Johor State is a Malay textile and clothing center.
Malacca will be built as a shipbuilding center, Kuala Lumpur will be built as a film and television media center, Ipoh will be built as a home appliance manufacturing center, and Penang will be built as a steel and automobile auto parts production center.
In order to complete this plan, Malaysia has also provided considerable preferential policies, including free industrial land, and corporate tax exemptions for two years and half tax for three years, that is, tax exemption for the first two years, and only half tax for the following three years.
In addition, in order to have more cheap labor and reduce business operating costs, Malay has also given the green light to the immigration policy. In recent years, hundreds of thousands of people have settled in Malay every year.
Faced with various preferential policies and the accelerated development of the Malay economy and market, it naturally attracts countless businessmen.
The protagonist today is still the Tung Wah Association, and this time it is mainly members of the Tung Wah Association. Hua Xing Group will build a large-scale steel production base in Penang.
Donghua Automobile Group also formed a joint venture with Jaguar Group to establish Jaguar Donghua Automobile Company in Penang and established a production base in Penang. The first model is a pickup truck that currently has no involvement from major automobile groups.
Ting Hsin Group has expanded the second phase of its food and beverage production base in Kuala Lumpur, mainly producing various tea beverages.
Datong Group entered Ipoh and established a Datong Electrical Appliances production base, which mainly produces branded home appliances under the Datong Group.
In addition, although the Baodao Pro-Tung Wah Association's corporate investment scale is not very large, it has quite a lot of projects, especially in the three major industries of auto parts, textiles, and food and beverages.
At the luncheon at noon, Hu Kern specifically expressed his gratitude to Li Jianhui and others, saying frankly that without their help, Malay development would never have been as fast as it was in recent years.
Of course, the most important thing is to hope that Li Jianhui and others can continue to support him and Malay. The change of office is coming soon. Due to the rapid economic development in recent years, Hu Kern's support rate among the people is quite high. It can be said that re-election is a sure thing.
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However, for the sake of insurance, Hu Kern still sought support from the Tung Wah Association to avoid possible accidents.
Regarding this re-election, members of the Li Jianhui and Xin Jian factions are also willing to see that although this person is not Chinese, his policies have been quite friendly to the Tung Wah Association in the past few years, and he has also adopted a supportive attitude toward the rise of the Chinese.
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Moreover, many policies are more open than before, such as film and television media. Private parties can now fully invest in establishing TV stations.
Finance is also open. Nanlong Bank has obtained a foreign exchange license and has the right to undertake foreign exchange business.
Many industries that were once restricted to private individuals have also begun to be liberalized on a large scale. Except for a few industries, there are no restrictions on private shareholding ratios.
As for how Li Jianhui and others do not support such a figure, as for the company owned by Hu Kern's brother, which has also made a lot of money in recent years, Li Jianhui and others have no objection.
"Mr. Hu Kern, you have created the Malay economic miracle in the past few years during your reign, and we very much look forward to your leadership in continuing this miracle.
In the next few years, we will continue to increase investment in Malaysia, provide more jobs for Malaysia, and help the Malaysian economy continue to grow."
With Li Jianhui's words, Hu Kern was completely relieved that there would be no more problems with the election at the end of this year.
Hu Kern, who was in a good mood, also talked about his development policy in the next few years, as well as the key reform measures in the next few years.
Li Jianhui is not very concerned about development, but is quite interested in some of Hu Kern's reform measures.
When talking about education reform, Li Jianhui responded: "If the government really promotes Chinese Mandarin to become the second official language of Malay, our Tung Wah Association is willing to change Cantonese teaching to Chinese Mandarin teaching in Malay universities."
“In recent years, as capital from Xiangjiang and Baodao has entered Malay in large quantities, the number of Malay Chinese immigrants has increased, and the proportion of our Malay Chinese population has continued to increase.
In order to facilitate communication between Malay nationals, it is imperative to improve the status of Mandarin Chinese.
As for why Chinese Mandarin is used instead of Cantonese, the main reason is that most people who can speak Cantonese can speak Mandarin, while many who can speak Mandarin do not understand Cantonese, and knowing Mandarin is also conducive to the exchanges between Malays and the north."
In fact, there is another reason why Hu Kern is unwilling to choose Cantonese instead of Mandarin. He does not want Malay to be completely controlled by Xiangjiang Capital headed by Tung Wah Club.
In the future, Mandarin Chinese will not only be used to communicate with the North, but also be a powerful tool to attract wealthy elites from the North to immigrate to Malaya.
Coupled with the internal local Malay capital and British capital, it is enough to compete with Donghua Club.
In fact, Hu Kern has always been quite conflicted in his heart. On the one hand, he knows that only by relying on the Tung Wah Association can Malay develop rapidly, and it is not hopeless to become a developed country in the future.
But on the other hand, he does not want Xiangjiang Capital headed by Donghuahui to completely control Malay.
Therefore, he has always hoped that a force would rise to contain the Tung Wah Association. In fact, he knew everything about the development of his brother's industry over the years, and even gave him a lot of help. He just hoped that Malay enterprises would also develop in the Malay economy and business field.
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However, the commercial strength of Malay enterprises alone is far from being comparable to that of the Tung Wah Association. At present, the British capital in Malay is mainly an ally of Chinese capital led by the Tung Wah Association.
To break this deadlock, it is necessary to introduce other capital, and Japan, South Korea and the United States will definitely not be able to do so. This will trigger a large-scale counterattack by Chinese capital led by Donghua Society. If the country is not careful, there will be turmoil in Malaysia. This is something he cannot do.
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And only northern capital can prevent the Chinese capital led by the Donghua Association from resisting.
Although private capital in the north seems to be extremely weak at present, Hu Kern will not ignore its potential.
As for whether these people will be of the same mind as Tung Wah in the future, he doesn't care that much. At least for now, in his opinion, the benefits of suppressing the influence of Cantonese in Malay outweigh the disadvantages of improving Chinese language in Malay.