PM: Minerals can be top GDP earner by 2030

Future forward: Muhyiddin (third from right) listening to Mineral and Geoscience Malaysia director Hisamuddin Termidi (far right) at an exhibition booth during the launch of TIM 2021–2030. Looking on are Dr Shamsul (second right) and Azmin Ali (fourth right) — Bernama

PUTRAJAYA: The government is setting its sights on making the mineral industry a major contributor to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2030, says Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

This, he said, can be realised with the implementation of the National Mineral Industry Transformation Plan 2021-2030 (TIM 2021-2030).