Planning ahead: Dr Wee (left) speaking at the MCA’s Budget 2023 stakeholders’ roundtable at Wisma MCA.
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia must expect opportunities and challenges to come next year when preparing for Budget 2023, says MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong.
As 2023 is fast approaching, Dr Wee, who is Transport Minister, said the country must anticipate what’s to come in a broad and inclusive way.
“MCA has gathered academics, industry captains from several chambers of commerce, opinion leaders from civil society organisations and other NGOs for their input on Budget 2023, to be tabled soon.
“We value the opinions and suggestions of all our stakeholders to ensure everyone has an equal chance to be heard,” Dr Wee said in a Facebook post.
He said this after opening the party’s Budget 2023 stakeholders’ roundtable event at Wisma MCA, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday.
The event was themed “Strengthening Recovery, Facilita- ting Reforms Towards Sustainable Economic Resilience of Keluarga Malaysia”.
“There is the need to think inclusively and broadly on how to make the conditions and opinions of the lower rungs of society heard,” Dr Wee said.
He added that he had urged them to suggest how businesses in Malaysia could thrive as the country entered a robust recovery period after its reopening from the pandemic, especially when the nation’s gross domestic product growth was expected to reach between 5.3% and 6.3% this year.
