November 12, 2026 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim received a courtesy call from the organising committee of the Malaysia-China Entrepreneurs Conference (MCEC) 2026 and expressed his support for the staging of the 16th edition of the conference.
In a post shared on X, Anwar said the committee, led by its adviser Tan Sri Barry Goh Ming Choon, called on him earlier that morning. He said he conveyed his support for the 16th MCEC as a platform to strengthen ties. The post, which was written in Malay, was cut off mid-sentence in the text available to LNA, so the full list of what the conference is meant to strengthen is not repeated here.
The post was accompanied by four photographs. They show Anwar seated at a long meeting table with a delegation of men in business attire, with officials and aides seated around the room. The images carry the Prime Minister’s Department emblem. The post did not name other members of the delegation or say where the meeting was held, so this report does not give a location for the call.
The conference is organised by the Malaysia-China Chamber of Commerce (MCCC). According to the chamber’s own announcement dated October 22, 2026, the 16th MCEC was scheduled for Thursday, November 12, 2026, at Wisma Huazong in Seri Kembangan, Selangor, under the theme “A Millennium of Trade, Built on Virtue”. The chamber said it expected about 600 political and business leaders, entrepreneurs and representatives from Malaysia and China.
The MCCC’s list of honorary presidents for its 14th term, covering 2025 to 2028, includes Tan Sri Barry Goh Ming Choon of B&G Capital Resources Bhd. Anwar’s post described him as the adviser who led the organising committee on the visit.
The programme announced by the chamber includes a business matching session and exhibition, a business forum, a corporate pitching session, two thematic breakout forums, the opening ceremony and a main forum. One breakout forum, titled “Silicon Bridges”, was to discuss cross-border value chains in semiconductors and artificial intelligence data centres, while another, “Flavours Across Borders”, was to look at Chinese brands entering Malaysia and Malaysian brands going global.
The MCCC said the conference traces its roots to the first ASEAN-China Partnership Forum in 2002 and was launched in its present form in 2011. It has been held every year since and, from 2014, has alternated between Malaysia and China, with past editions in cities such as Xiamen, Chengdu, Nanjing and Fuzhou.
On the day of the conference itself, The Star and The Edge Malaysia reported that Anwar addressed the opening ceremony by video, saying the Malaysia-China partnership should go beyond traditional trade and investment to embrace innovation, industrial cooperation and talent development. The Star reported that Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives Minister Steven Sim delivered the Prime Minister’s keynote address on his behalf.
Anwar’s post on the courtesy call did not mention any specific commitments, agreements or investments arising from the meeting. It was a statement of support for the conference and for the business communities involved, and no further details of the discussion were released at the time of writing.
Credit : Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s X
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