Honouring a visionary leader

Guan Eng (third left) and state leaders at the renaming of a 17.84km stretch of highway from Weld Quay to Batu Maung to Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway in November 2010. — Filepic

IN 1969, at the height of mass unemployment, Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu pioneered job-led growth through export-oriented industrialisation for Penang which provided many with jobs and upward mobility.

Half a century later now, as Malaysia faces economic challenges especially following the trade war between United States and China, Penang can take a leaf from the job-led growth strategy pursued by the late Dr Lim.