By Love Royce S/O Miclamani
2013-121814
Topic : Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Recently, at the
invitation of our Yang Di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, His Excellency Xi Jinping
, the President of the People’s Republic of China undertook a State visit to Malaysia from 03-05 October
2013 and met our Prime Minister, Dato Sri Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak
Figure 1.- Chinese President and Malaysian Prime Minister jointly meet
the press in Kuala Lumpur.
The 2 sides spoke
highly of the progress of Malaysia- China relationship and agreed to elevate
the Malaysia-China strategic cooperation to ‘Comprehensive Strategic
Partnership’ . It marked a new level of
the bilateral cooperation of the two countries in various fields such as
investment, tourism , education, financial services, infrastructure development
and defence.
President
Xi Jinping mentioned that both Malaysia and China should expand economic and
trade cooperation, aiming for 160 million USD in bilateral trade by 2017. To my
understanding the programme will add impetus to the already vibrant economic
cooperation with the most visible being the China –Malaysia Qinzhou Industrial
park which was launched in April 2012 and the Malaysia-china Kuantan industrial
park on February 2013.Even in the past years Malaysia has been China’s top
trading partner with ASEAN for five years in a row since 2008. While, in the
tourism sector Malaysian tourism minister Ng Yen Yen says there are 1.5 million
tourists from China that visited Malaysia on 2012 and the ministry is expecting
2 million tourist from China to visit Malaysia this year(2013).
Figure 2.- China - Malaysia Qinzhou Industrial Park Signing Ceremony
Ffigure 3.- Malaysia - China Kuantan Industrial Park Signing Ceremony
Both agreed to continuously enhance bilateral
people-to-people exchanges and local level cooperation. Both Malaysia and china
welcomed the designation of the year 2014 as the ‘Malaysia -China Year of
Friendly Exchanges ‘. The arrival of giant Panda’s to Malaysia will signify a
new level of partnership especially when both countries celebrated the 40’th
anniversary of the establishment of
diplomatic relations in the same year.
Figure 4.- Anticipation for the arrival of Pandas to Malaysia on 2014.
In my opinion Malaysia should also
consider about opening some amazing parks for recreational purposes as well as to promote or expose the diverse culture of Malaysia in China as it will further reinforce
the bond between both countries. The two countries will undertake a series of
celebration activities to promote exchanges and cooperation in fields like education, culture and
tourism between the two countries. In my opinion, activities that include the
exchanges of youth groups and art troupes should also be considered alongside
with the other activities that are organized as it will expose the people
especially the younger generation to the culture of the respective countries.
His Excellency
President Xi Jinping also urged the two countries to tighten cooperation in
telecommunication, remote sensing satellite and biological technology. Plus ,
he and our Prime Minister also suggested that both China and Malaysia should
make full use of the defense and security consultation and join in hands
combating terrorism. I totally support all this ideas and would like to suggest
that both leaders of the countries should have frequent mutual visits, increase
communication on major issues and strengthen top level designs of bilateral
relations. I believe it is indeed very important for Malaysia and China to collaborate
extensively in promoting peace , stability, mutual respect and confidence
building and not to mention that it will contribute greatly to the development of both countries and the well being of the citizens.
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I totally agree with the idea of carrying out activities which include the exchanging of youth groups and art troupes along with the other adventerous and camping-like activities organized as it will expose the younger generation to the culture of the respective countries.This somehow builds a better relationship among countries.
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DeleteYour facts are highly accurate as cross referenced from the net and the local dailies. Also Malaysia has strong ties with countries across the borders and China is a great example that you have chosen.
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