Kuantan in February is sunny, green, and the sea and sky. Located in the East Coast Special Economic Zone (SEZ) on the east coast of Malaysia, this beautiful city near Kuantan Port is full of life with the beautiful Kuantan River running through the city and facing the sea. In 2013, the MCKUAN Industrial Park was officially opened here, creating a new model of "two countries, two parks" together with the China-Malaysia Qinzhou Industrial Park. In the blink of an eye, ten years later, the beautiful "two countries and two parks" have gradually risen from barren mountains and mountains to modern international industrial parks: the MCKUOTAN Industrial Park is based in China and ASEAN, facing the Asia-Pacific region, focusing on the development of steel and non-ferrous metals, machinery and equipment manufacturing, renewable energy, processing trade and logistics and other industries.
The "Two Countries, Two Parks" has changed from a "planning map" to a "real scene painting", which is a vivid practice of the economic and trade cooperation between China and Malaysia.
In 2018, the reporter visited the MCKUAN Industrial Park for the first time and was full of emotion.
In 2024, I will visit here again after six years, and I have already "changed the world".
Plant a plane tree to attract a golden phoenix. As of August 2023, MCKIP has completed a total development investment of about 1.5 billion yuan, signed 13 investment projects with a total agreed investment of about 46 billion yuan, and completed industrial investment of about 12 billion yuan, with a total industrial output value of more than 60 billion yuan.
Ten years of sharpening a sword. After 10 years of precipitation, the Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park has introduced a number of Chinese enterprises such as United Iron and Steel, Xindi Tire and Jianhui Paper to invest and set up business here, becoming a flagship project and benchmark project for China-Malaysia investment cooperation under the framework of the "Belt and Road".
Aerial panorama of Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park.
"MCKIP is one of the most successful SEZs on the east coast of Malaysia. The Chief Executive Officer of the Malaysian East Coast Special Economic Zone Development Council, Mr. Baichawi, has emphasized on different occasions that "the Malaysia-China 'two countries, two parks' model is a success. "As the first major industrial project to enter the park, it took only one and a half years from the start of construction to the completion and production. Today, UAL is Malaysia's largest and most advanced full-process steel company, with an annual production capacity of more than 3.5 million tonnes of high-quality products sold from Kuantan Port, not far from the park. "With the best equipment, the most advanced technology, and the most collaborative team, the United Steel project has been leading the high-quality development of Malaysia's steel industry since it was put into operation, providing more than 4,000 local jobs. Hu Jiulin, deputy general manager of United Iron and Steel, said that with the full implementation of RCEP, the high-quality development of the "Belt and Road" has been deepened and solidified, and the project has great development potential, broad prospects and a promising future.
The Kuantan Port wharf under the sunshine is a busy scene with sparkling waves, orderly loading and unloading of goods, and transport vehicles shuttling back and forth. Today's Kuantan Port Terminal, with a load of 180,000 tons, can be loaded and unloaded in a few days. Ten years ago, it took nearly a week to unload 50,000 tons of cargo.
Busy Malaysian Port of Kuantan. There will be times when the wind and waves will be long, and the clouds will sail into the sea. Previously, Kuantan Port was smaller, ranking eighth among Malaysian ports. In order to promote the rise of Malaysia's East Coast Special Economic Zone, the Malaysian government has listed Kuantan Port as one of the key development ports. In 2013, Guangxi Beibu Gulf International Port Group took a stake in Kuantan Port, which was jointly built and shared by China and Malaysia, and this port with a history of more than 40 years ushered in the "spring" of development.
The opportunities are great and the prospects are great. Today, Kuantan Port has become the largest port on the east coast of Malaysia. The General Manager of Kuantan Port Operations, Yip King Tao, has been working at Kuantan Port for 10 years and has witnessed the transformation of the port. "Reducing regional logistics costs is an important goal of Kuantan Port and the only way to enhance its overall competitiveness. Ye Jingtao said that when the regional logistics cost dropped, the most direct manifestation is that the local supermarket in the goods are more abundant, in the past, Kuantan Port was mainly imported heavy industry raw materials, now you can see snail flour, frozen meat and other dazzling special goods, "spring story" is rich and colorful.
The site of the joint steel project in the Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park. Time is the greatest writer, recording the footprints of growth. In 2015, Kuantan Port doubled its throughput and operating revenue, in 2018, it became Malaysia's largest public bulk cargo terminal, with the construction of two 150,000-ton deep-water terminals, giving wings to future development, and in 2023, Kuantan Port reached a record high of 18 million tonnes. With the deepening of the "Belt and Road" construction and the acceleration of the construction of new international land and sea trade corridors, the cooperation between Guangxi and Malaysia has become closer, exchanges are more extensive and more fruitful. "Qinzhou Port and Kuantan Port are international sister ports, and the new international land-sea trade corridor is closely connected with Qinzhou Port, which greatly expands the economic hinterland of Qinzhou Port and Kuantan Port. Ye Jingtao said that the goods of Kuantan Port will arrive in western China in less than 2 weeks through Qinzhou Port and then transfer to sea-rail intermodal trains.
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