On November 19, 2021, Chinese Consul General in Penang Mr. Lu Shiwei was invited to attend the Forum on 2022 China Import Policy organized by Malaysian media Kwong Wah Yit Poh, and delivered a speech. Mr. Lee Hin Chan, General Manager of Kwong Wah Yit Poh, representatives from Penang Chinese Chamber of Commerce Young Entrepreneur Section (PCCC YES), Penang Importers & Exporters Association, Malaysia Entrepreneurs’ Development Association Penang State Liaison, CAIQTest Innovation (Malaysia) Service Center, etc, as well as business and media representatives attended the event. The conference was held both online and offline simultaneously, and was broadcast live on the official Facebook page of Kwong Wah Yit Poh.

Consul General Mr. Lu Shiwei said in his speech that China has successfully contained the pandemic and became the first to restore economic growth. The country achieves sustained and rapid economic growth and injects impetus into the world economy. China has implemented reform and opening-up, made tremendous development achievements, and has kept deepening reform and expanding opening-up. By joining the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the World Trade Organization (WTO), proposing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), hosting the China International Import Expo (CIIE), etc., China has kept opening wider to the world, and sharing the development fruits with the world. China’s door of opening-up will only open wider. China will lay more emphasis on expanding import, and pursue balanced development of trade.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The CPC led the Chinese people in successfully ending extreme poverty that had plagued the nation for thousands of years, realized the first centenary goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, and is marching toward the second centenary goal of building China into a great modern socialist country in all respects. China will firmly expand opening-up, accelerate the new development paradigm with domestic circulation as the mainstay, mutually reinforcing domestic and international circulations. It is anticipated that Malaysian entrepreneurs will take active actions to seize the new opportunities of China’s development and opening-up, explore new business opportunities, and elevate bilateral economic and trade cooperation to a new level. 

Mr. Lee Hin Chan, General Manager of Kwong Wah Yit Poh said that in 2020, Malaysia’s trade with China in both export and import have reached a record high, showing the huge potential of Malaysian products in the Chinese market, and also highlighting the economic and trade complementarity and the potentials in development cooperation between Malaysia and China. It is hoped that Malaysian enterprises can seize the opportunities of the opening-up of the RCEP market, improve production capacity and the quality product and service, and enter the RCEP market, especially the huge Chinese import market.

Dr. Zhuang Ciyi from CAIQTest Innovation (Malaysia) Service Center introduced the relevant regulations and policies of China’s food import.