Malaysia will implement a visa exemption for chinese citizens within 30 days from 1 december. The first stop for chinese tourists would often be east or south-east asian countries, and malaysia's visa-free policy would undoubtedly increase the willingness of chinese tourists to travel. What is malaysia like? What are the tourist attractions worth visiting in malaysia? Here's your answer。
Malaysia (malaysia), located in south-east asia, comprises the southern malay peninsula (known as simma) and the northern borneo (known as toma), covering an area of 330,000 square kilometres, administratively divided into 13 states and 3 federal territories; in 2022, the population was 3,394,000, the malays 70 per cent, chinese 22 per cent and indian 7 per cent. Sixty-one per cent of the population is muslim, 9 per cent christian, 6 per cent hindu, malay is the official language, english is common and chinese is more widely used. The size of malaysia is equal to the sum of our province of liaoning + jilin, with a population of about half the sum of our province of liaoning + jilin。
(1) young states and long history
Malaysia is a young country, having been a federation of malaysia since 1963 for only 60 years, but it has a long history. Malaysia's history dates back to the kingdom of malacca, established in 1402 by barimisula, the first ever kingdom in malaysia's history. Zheng ming dynasty and seven lower chinas were stationed five times in malacca (ming dynasty). After the sixteenth century, malaysia became a colony of portugal, the netherlands and britain. Malaysia became independent of britain in 1957. In 1963, malaya formed the union of malaysia with four entities: singapore, sabah and sarawak. In 1965, malaysia had “dismissed” singapore, which had been forced to become a sovereign and independent state, and lee had cried in his national speech。
(2) “supreme head of state”
Malaysia was a british colony with close ties to britain. Malaysia is one of the 56 commonwealth members, but is not a member of the commonwealth kingdom and therefore does not have the british monarch as head of state. Malaysia's head of state is not the president or the king, but rather the “supreme head of state”. Of the 197 countries of the world, this is the case. Malaysia has nine sultanates at the state level, and the supreme head of state was elected from among the nine hereditary sudans. Malaysia is not a sultanate, but a constitutional federal monarchy. The supreme head of state is the highest representative of the state, both within and outside the state, and formally has the highest authority of the state, but power is vested in the cabinet of malaysia。
(3) member of the organization of islamic cooperation
Islam is the state religion in malaysia, and under article 160 of the malaysian constitution malays automatically become muslims at birth. Malaysia is culturally diverse and multireligious. Malaysia is a member of the organization of islamic cooperation and the world islamic economic forum is based in kuala lumpur, but malaysia is not an islamic country. Women in malays are not dressed in brown robes like those in middle eastern countries, and their bodies are so tight that most women in malays do not wear headscarves. Even with a headscarf, the hair, ears and neck were covered and the entire face was exposed. The headscarf rarely sees black, but is predominantly white and even light powder, blue and yellow。
(4) polygamy
Polygamy is permitted by muslims in many countries around the world, including malays who profess islam. The malays married up to four women after having obtained permission from the muslim court. Men must obtain their original consent before marrying a new wife. In a polygamous family, each wife must be treated in the same way and each wife must have a share of the house, car, gold and silver jewellery. In malaysia, there are still a small number of people with three or four wives, but many with two wives。
(5) second most chinese country
Malaysian chinese make up 23 per cent of the total population, the second largest number of chinese, after singapore, and the second largest number of chinese, after thailand, with more than 7 million. Malaysian chinese are mainly of chinese descent who moved from fujian, guangdong, guangxi, and hainan to the malay peninsula during the period between ming dynasty and qing dynasty. Malaysia is the country with the most complete valor education system except for china, where chinese people insist on preserving chinese culture and have a strong sense of identity. Malaysians of chinese origin are dominant in services and manufacturing and contribute significantly to malaysia's economic development. If working in private enterprises, the owner is likely to be chinese and most of the clients are chinese, and mandarin will be the advantage。
(6) malaysia at the southernmost end of the asian continent
There may be many who think that the southernmost end of the asian continent is singapore, which is an island state and does not belong to the asia-europe continent. Indeed, at the southern end of the asian continent is a place called tanjong piai, south-west corner of johor, malaysia. The “danboubyi” marked the southernmost in asia and became a place for tourists to take photographs “on this trip”. Here we can look at three countries, singapore to the east and indonesia to the south。
(7) the administration is not in the capital
The executive, legislative and judicial branches of the vast majority of countries are in one capital, but a few have multiple capitals, while malaysia is different. Malaysia's statutory capital is in kuala lumpur, but malaysia's administration is not in kuala lumpur but in bu. In the 1990s, kuala lumpur, malaysia's capital, suffered from “large-city disease”. In order to defunct part of the capital, it was decided to construct a new city as the seat of the administration. Putrajaya, which was translated into putrajaya, formerly in the state of serang, was ceded to the federal government in 2001 as the third federal territory after kuala lumpur and nabun. The executive and judicial bodies of the federal government were relocated from kuala lumpur to bu city in 1999 and 2003。
(8) badminton powers
Badminton is malaysia's most popular sport and has a good popular base. Malaysia is the traditional badminton power, having won five championships and nine armies in the toms cup. In the last 10 world badminton championships, malaysia won one gold medal, five silver medals and five copper medals, of which li zong wei alone won four single-handed silver medals. Li zong wei also received single-playing men for three consecutive olympic games in 2008, 2012 and 2016. After the 2008 olympic games, the malaysian royal family awarded lee zong wei the seal “dax”. Lee zong wei occupied the first position in the single world for 349 weeks, the longest record of the badminton. Li zong wei is known as the "first brother of the horse" and, together with peter ged of denmark, lindane of china and tawfik of indonesia, the international pavilion "four kings"。
(9) countries with the second largest production of durian
Malaysia is generally considered to be the origin of the durian, which is later introduced into countries such as the philippines, sri lanka, thailand and viet nam. Thailand and malaysia are the two largest countries in the world, with 90 per cent of global production. Thailand, which produces more than 1 million tons per year, is the world's largest producer and exporter of durian, and spends most of it on china. In 2022, malaysia produced 460,000 tons of durian, second only to thailand. Malaysia's most famous type of durian is the king of cats and mountains, known as the king of durians, at a domestic retail price of $100 per pound. The king of cat hills has a fragrance of meat, a sense of mouth and mouth, and sweet fruit with glycerine and very small cores. Since durian flowers are usually open at night, malaysian durians rely mainly on bat pollination instead of bees and butterflies。
(10) malaysian tourist attractions
Malaysia, close to the equator, with abundant sunlight and a beautiful landscape, has not only high-quality beaches, strange islands, primitive tropical jungles, but also long historical monuments and distinctive foods. The twin towers in kuala lumpur, the sky horizon of what, the podshon in samyland, the zheng and the cultural palace in malacca, the hot wave island in the tenga house, the sky bridge in lancawi island, the penang beach in penang city, mount kinnabaru in sabah and the sarawak cultural city in sarawak are all tourist attractions. Carbine tea, shrimp noodles, flat rice, falciparum, coconut rice, sand paste, and fishballs can't be missed。
Malaysia is rich in natural resources, the world's largest exporter of palm oil, the third largest rubber exporter, the second largest non-alloyed tin exporter and an important producer of natural gas and high-quality tropical hardwood. The primitive forests are home to endangered alien birds and wild animals, and orchids, great apes and butterflies are recognized as the three greatest treasures in malaysia. In the human development report 2021/2022, published by the united nations development programme (undp), malaysia ranked 62nd in the human development index among 191 countries (regions) (mainland 79th in china); in the global competitiveness report 2019, released by the world economic forum, malaysia ranked 27th in the global competitiveness index (mainland 28th in china); and in the global happiness report 2023, published by the united nations sustainable development solutions network (sdsn), malaysia ranked 55th in 137 countries (continental china 64th in china)。
GDP per capita in 2022 was $124 million, comparable to that of china, and was in the upper middle-income category. Per capita GDP in malaysia is similar to that in china, but national happiness is much higher than in china. Housing in malaysia is unevenly distributed, there is no inheritance tax and the average house price is low. Kuala lumpur has the highest housing prices, ranging from rmb 11,000 to rmb 50,000 per square metre, rmb 6500 to rmb 20,000 per square metre and rmb 5000 to rmb 20,000 per square metre. Malaysia follows the english-style education system, where english is taught at a higher cost. Basic public facilities in malaysia are well developed and the level of health care is leading. Malaysia has a well-developed commonwealth legal system, a sound system, open and transparent information and a better business environment. The cost of daily life in malaysia is low: ron95 petrol is about rmb 3 per litre, ron97 gasoline is about rmb 5 per litre; clothing and shoes are cheap, and there are government subsidies for general products such as eggs, flour and cooking oil。
References: le chi zhi malaysia, singapore chinese experience, malaysia general history, etc。
