‘Industries must adopt digital tech for economic complexity’


KUALA LUMPUR: The Investment, Trade and Industry Ministry is determined to make Malaysia a digitally vibrant nation to achieve greater economic complexity by encouraging local industries to adopt digital technology.

Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz said one of the key areas in the New Industrial Master Plan 2030 (NIMP2030), which the ministry expects to launch in August, is to advance the nation’s economic complexity, especially in five sectors: aerospace, chemicals and petrochemicals, digital economy, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals.

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