Visa-free travel to China for M'sians extended till end of 2025, says envoy

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Speaking at the launch of the Malaysia-China Commemorative Forum in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday (May 7), Chinese ambassador to Malaysia Ouyang Yujing said visa-free travel to China for Malaysian citizens had been extended until the end of 2025.  Read more at https://shorturl.at/duMT8  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 [speaking Chinese]

00:04 Malaysia and China are good neighbors, close friends,

00:09 trustworthy partners, and well-willed sharing brothers

00:14 whose friendship dates back to thousands of years ago.

00:19 Since establishing diplomatic relations 50 years ago,

00:24 relations between the two countries

00:27 have been progressing in leaps and bounds,

00:30 which is always at the forefront of China's relations

00:35 with the other countries.

00:37 President Xi Jinping's historical visit to Malaysia in 2013

00:43 opened a new chapter in the two countries' relations development,

00:47 during which comprehensive strategic partnership

00:51 was built between China and Malaysia.

00:54 Ten years later, Prime Minister Anwar visited China

00:58 and reached an important consensus with President Xi Jinping

01:03 on building the China-Malaysia community with a shared future,

01:07 both of whom draw a new blueprint for the two countries' future development.

01:13 China and Malaysia have always been each other's

01:18 hot-spot tourism destinations for a long time.

01:23 The end of last year's annual visa-free entry policies

01:27 enabled the peoples of both countries to visit each other whenever they like,

01:33 which is such great news to both.

01:36 Now, the tourism coming to Malaysia from China

01:40 has grown to more than 270,000 per month,

01:44 which is still expected to be growing.

01:48 During the five days of the International Work States Holiday alone,

01:53 Chinese tourism to Malaysia increased by more than 80%.

01:59 Another good news.

02:00 Just yesterday, the China President Xi Jinping announced in France

02:06 that the visa-free policy for the citizens from the 12 countries,

02:11 including Malaysia, to come to China will be extended

02:16 until the end of 2025,

02:20 which will further promote exchange and cooperation between our two countries.

02:27 Flies between China and Malaysia has now increased to more than 350 per week.

02:36 All these figures and news are good tellers of the ever-growing

02:41 closeness between the two peoples and countries.

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