KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 12): Sunsuria Bhd has entered into a co-construction agreement with the Fuzhou Municipal People’s Government (Gulou district) for the construction of the Asean Digital Trade Industrial Park in Fuzhou, China. The agreement was signed on Dec 21 during the First Overseas Chinese Talent Conference for Development in Fuzhou, China. 

Sunsuria executive chairman Tan Sri Ter Leong Yap said: “Sunsuria, in collaboration with Fuzhou (Gulou district) to build the Asean Digital Trade Industrial Park in Fuzhou, welcomes outstanding talents and digital companies from China and Malaysia to join us and promote the developments of the digital economy in China and Malaysia.”

For the past 10 years, Ter shared that Malaysia had been one of the active Asean countries in rolling out various initiatives, such as the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC Malaysia), Malaysia Digital Economy Blueprint and MyDigital, to promote the country’s potential and competitiveness in developing digital tourism, digital trade, digital agriculture and digital finance, among others. 

Digital companies Shanghai Bridge Digital Technology Group, Haohuo Network Technology Co Ltd, Fujian HealthyWay IT Co Ltd and AMG Advance Profitable Sdn Bhd were also signatories of the agreement on Dec 21.