‘You can benefit from the Budget’
Liow: MCA to engage communities on incentives
KUALA LUMPUR: The people must know how they can benefit from Budget 2018 that stresses on inclusivity and nation-building.
Citing examples, MCA president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said there were various forms of incentives for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), e-commerce and the logistics sector to spur the economy.
In turn, the people would be the ones to benefit most from a good economy, he said.
For a start, Liow, who is also the Transport Minister, said that along with deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong and secretarygeneral Datuk Seri Ong Ka Chuan who are Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department and International Trade and Industry Minister II respectively, he would form groupings to engage the community on the various aspects of the Budget.
At a press conference, after chairing the party’s central committee meeting yesterday, Liow said the committee had given the thumbs up to the party’s performance this year.
In particular, the members were all praise for what MCA has done for education in general and Chinese education, the latest being the approval by the Government to build 10 new Chinese primary schools and relocate six others.
Liow said the schools would meet the demand for Chinese primary education in areas identified by the MCA and the Chinese community, and that this was of utmost importance to the people there.
As such, he urged the DAP and Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng not to derail MCA’s efforts in Chinese education by holding a string of press conferences to attack MCA following the announcement of the schools last week.
“MCA has to work together with the Chinese community to build the schools,” he said.
On the party’s two-day annual general meeting this weekend, Liow said Barisan Nasional chairman and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak would open the AGM on Sunday.
The one-day Youth and Wanita AGMs would be held this Saturday and would be opened by Dr Wee and Ong respectively.
Liow said the coming general election would top the meeting’s agenda.