Why is the 92-year-old Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir in such a hurry to meet Jack Ma?

2018 year 6 month 18 day,马来西亚Eid al-Fitr has just passed.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir met with the chairman of Alibaba Group at the Prime Minister's Office in a hurryMa Yun ▼

Welcome to Jack Ma 3 times in a row

During the talks, Mahathir told Jack Ma three times in a row that he welcomes Alibaba and Chinese companies to invest in Malaysia.He hopes to learn from China's Internet technology development and globalization process, and strengthen the relationship between Malaysia and China.

After meeting with Jack Ma, Mahathir immediately posted on social media. He said that he met with Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, at the Prime Minister's Office and exchanged views on a wide range of topics.

June 2018 and 6, 16 just passed, this is the festival of Muslims in Malaysia - Eid al-Fitr.

92-year-old Prime Minister Mahathir put Jack Ma in first meeting on first working day after holidayperson, and said that the new Malaysian government attaches great importance to Alibaba.

Hope to help local farmers

At the beginning of the talks, Mahathir proposed to Jack Ma that he hoped that Alibaba could use its own experience to help local farmers by using English and bilingual training.

"Malaysia's countryside has not become rich. The government's important goal is to support rural development. We hope Alibaba can support Malaysia's rural development through the Internet."

In Mahathir's view, Alibaba is characterized by providing more opportunities for local Malaysians while developing, and fully supporting local small and medium-sized enterprises.Small tradebusiness development.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir personally welcomed Jack Ma at 2018 am on June 6, 18 and warmly welcomed the arrival of Alibaba ▼

Malaysia must learn from China

During the talks, Mahathir expressed his appreciation for China's technological Internet and globalization.He said Malaysia must learn from China.He also expressed the need to go to China to observe and strengthen Malaysia-China relations.

Jack Ma promised Mahathir at the meeting that many Chinese companies are interested in investing in Malaysia, and that Alibaba's visit is here on behalf of Chinese companies:

• "Alibaba has always been committed to helping Malaysia upgrade its technology and helping Malaysian SMEs go global through the Alibaba ecosystem."

Mahathir replied:

• “Malaysia is an investment-friendly country, and we believe that investment can create jobs. Alibaba is happy to give opportunities to locals and to help small and medium-sized enterprises, and you are very welcome to develop! We hope you can support Malaysian companies in exporting, and Train our entrepreneurs."

According to official data released by Malaysia in 2016, Malaysian SMEs accounted for 97.3% of the country's total, with more than 640,000.

Malaysia's economic structure of relying on SMEs makes Alibaba, known for its ability to strengthen SMEs, more complementary and irreplaceable to Malaysia.

In April 2018, Alibaba dispatchedE-commerceExperts to conduct 9-week workshop for 330 SMEs in 2 Malaysian citiesE-commerceTraining.

Alibaba's super logistics center in Kuala Lumpur will help more SMEs save more costs.

2651 Malaysian companies generate US$1350 million in sales

The Digital Free Trade Zone (DFTZ) in Malaysia has attracted 2,651 Malaysian SMEs to join the project in just six months of opening, generating US$1350 million in sales revenue.Malaysian specialties, such as coffee and durian, have become the favorite products of young Chinese.

After the completion of the digital free trade zone, Malaysian SMEs will directly benefit.With the launch of Alibaba's office in Kuala Lumpur, this process will be greatly accelerated, enabling Chinese and Malaysian SMEs to share in the development of the Chinese market.

As Jack Ma said, "We are not building a free trade zone, we are building a future for young people and small and medium-sized enterprises."

After the meeting, Jack Ma held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly established Alibaba Group office in Kuala Lumpur.Mahathir immediately posted a post on social media ▼

• He said he had a good exchange of views with Jack Ma on a wide range of topics.

After Jack Ma and Mahathir met, they immediately went to Alibaba's Malaysia office in Kuala Lumpur to cut the ribbon:

• Alibaba Cloud, CaiNiao Network, Lazada and many other business personnel have settled in the office, and will provide more local small businessesInternet marketingservice.
• The establishment of Alibaba's Malaysia office also heralds the trajectory of China's digital version of the "Belt and Road" initiative entering Southeast Asia.

It appears that Mahathir will continue to push for the construction of Malaysia's Digital Free Trade Zone (DFTZ) when he takes office.

After all, millions of small businesses and hundreds of millions of young people in Malaysia and Southeast Asia will benefit from the eWTP “China Plan”.

Mahathir also told the media:

• With the help of Alibaba, Malaysia is expected to return to the hypermedia initiative, making the hypermedia corridor a fertile ground for new ideas and creations.
• The Super Multimedia Corridor is Mahathir's grand plan to develop the digital economy in 1996, and it is also the first project in the world to focus on the development of multimedia information technology.

Mahathir's meeting with Jack Ma also sparked Malaysia'snew mediaand public attention.

Malaysian internet users made 'demands' to even their own finance minister:

• “Dear Minister, please negotiate with Alibaba Group to allow Malaysians to passTaobao和AlipayExport to China.Now we need Chinese IDs and banks to sell stuff. "

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