Development is an unyielding Principle

Development is an unyielding Principle

Many finds that the sudden change in the Middle East happened very abruptly, however, personally I feel otherwise.  A renown Middle Eastern Entrepreneur delivered a brief talk which caught the attention of the attendances. He said, “There is a huge time bomb in the Middle East, and that is the accelerating increase of the population that leads to great pressure in the job market.”  6 to 7 years from now, there needs to be 100 million job opportunities in Middle East to absorb the number of youngsters heading towards the job market. There has to be an annual GDP of 8% to achieve this target.  However, the national GDP in each Middle Eastern country is just approximately 4% which can hardly fulfill the need of the massive working group.  It is believed that this time bomb could explode anytime and it seems that some Middle East people are already aware of the current changes taking place in Middle East.

The factor which leads to the great change in Middle East is the enormous number of unemployed young people. Take Egypt for instance, 70% of the total Egypt population are unemployed young people age 30 years and below, the unemployment rate in Egypt is as high as 30% whilst 90% of the jobless group is made up of young people.

Why does the rapid economy development that is happening in China did not occur in Middle East?  I thought for a long while and realized that the late China Leader, Deng Xiao Ping was right about one thing, “Development is an unyielding Principle.” In the past 30 years, under the governance of Communist leaders, the Chinese strived for development whole-heartedly, leading to the evolutionary change in China today.  In view of the “Twelve-Fifth” plan reviewed in the PRC People Congress, as the country continues to strive for development, the government will place more focus on livelihood of the citizens and allow the outcome of evolution and liberation benefit the whole nation.

The world hopes to see peace and stability in the Middle East. The international oil price has shot up at high speed due to the instability in the Middle East, this could lead to inflation in food price globally.  In the past one year, the price of food has risen 20% - 30% globally, should the price continue to increase, various social problem would arise which is detrimental to the stability of the world.

We could see how development and high technology has helped us from the incident of the Earthquake and Tsunami which hit Japan and the leakage of radioactivity of the nuclear plant. We also see how high technology has helped to safe and control the leakage of radioactivity in order to minimize the number of death and injured as well as financial losses within the shortest time frame.  If a 9.0 magnitude earthquake were to happen in a developing country, the outcome could be worst beyond imagination.

Our country has a unique combination of many different races and religions, thus it is inevitable to have more complex debates on controversial and sensitive issues compared to nations with single race.  Therefore, by prompting development and improving the living standards of the nation, the people’s mindset would become more flexible and liberal.  Only by doing so could the various disputes among each race and religion be dissolved.  Besides, the state government should also get involve and coordinate in the ETP proposed by the Federal Government to benefit the people by bringing development to the state.  When the living standard of the people improved, the level of education would also improve, and so would the quality of the people increase along with the improvement.  Therefore, the right choice is that we strive to develop whole-heartedly. The same principle applies, the whole country should support the “1Malaysia” and “ETP” proposed by our Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib.  The change in Middle East, the Japan tsunami and nuclear plant explosion as well as the Yunnan earthquake all happened under the massive global change, and the great change indicated that “Development is an unyielding principle”.