Mao Weiming, deputy secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee and governor of Hunan Province, met in Changsha with Loke Siew Fook, minister of Transport Malaysia on the afternoon of June 7, 2024.

On June 7, Governor Mao met with Loke Siew Fook, minister of Transport Malaysia in Changsha.

Zhang Jianfei, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Hunan Provincial People's Congress, and Qu Hai, secretary general of the People's Government of Hunan Province, attended.

Minister Loke came to Hunan to attend a roll-off ceremony for the new ETS3 meter-gauge Electric Multiple-Unit train for Malaysia. Developed by CRRC and tailored to Malaysian specifications, the project includes ten 6-carriage electric locomotive trains, which are planned to be used from Gemas, Negeri Sembilan to Johor along the west coastline route of Malaysia. The project represents the advanced level of Hunan's equipment manufacturing.

The meeting.

Governor Mao welcomed the guests and briefed them on the economic and social development of Hunan Province. He noted that Hunan and Malaysia share close ancestral ties and have aligned interests in various industries. Riding on a wave of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between Malaysia and China, the two sides have deepened friendly interactions and expanded people-to-people exchanges, achieving fruitful results in economic and trade cooperation. In 2023, the bilateral trade volume amounted to 36.5 billion CNY, especially in such areas as rail transit, construction machinery, and infrastructure construction. Hunan has set up 43 overseas investment enterprises in Malaysia, and its outbound direct investment has reached 840 million USD.

Governor Mao looks forward to both sides jointly implementing the important consensus reached by the two heads of state to build a China-Malaysia community with a shared future for humanity, furthering close personal interactions, strengthening cultural and educational exchanges, enhancing industrial cooperation, and implementing cooperative projects under the Belt and Road Initiative. We can enhance the partnership between Hunan and Malaysia in the areas of rail transit and infrastructure facilities, and support and promote Hunan-based enterprises such as the CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive, Hunan Construction Investment Group, SANY, along with others, to expand their presence in the Malaysian market, realizing industrial development, sci-tech innovation, and resource sharing, he added.

The meeting.

Minister Loke spoke highly of Chinese efficiency, convenience and innovative vitality and Hunan's transportation construction in particular. He noted that Chinese high-speed railways, represented by CRRC, have become a world-renowned "shining business card". Malaysia will actively respond to China's Belt and Road Initiative, learning from its solutions for sustainable development of the rail transit industry, and continuing to expand pragmatic cooperation with Hunan in the fields of transportation, economy and trade, culture and tourism, to promote the perpetuation of the Malaysia-China friendship.

Photos taken by Liu Shangwen.

This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Yu Jiangjiang

Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn