Malaysia Wawasan 2020

Vision 2020

Wawasan 2020 or Vision 2020 is a Malaysian ideal introduced by the former prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Bin Mohamad during the tabling of the Sixth Malaysia Plan in 1991. The vision calls for a self-sufficient industrial, Malay-centric developed nation, complete with an economy, in 2020 that will be eightfold stronger than the economy of the early 1990s. Malaysia entered year 2000, the first year of the 21st century and third millennium, determined to achieve its objective of becoming a fully developed

country by the year 2020. Our confidence and determination to achieve this vision is based on our record of development since independence. In the 10 years before the economic turmoil of 1997-1998, we were growing at 8 percent plus, higher than our 7 percent growth target needed to double our per capita income every 10 years for 30 years.

In order to achieve the vision 2020, Malaysia should not be developed only in the economic sense. It must be a nation that is fully developed along all the dimensions: economically, politically, socially, spiritually, psychologically and culturally. We must be fully developed in terms of national unity and social cohesion, in terms of our economy, in terms of social justice, political stability, system of government, quality of life, social and spiritual values, national pride and confidence.

If all ths aspect works together,by the year 2020, Malaysia can be a united nation, with a confident Malaysian society, infused by strong moral and ethical values, living in a society that is democratic, liberal and tolerant, caring, economically just and equitable, progressive and prosperous, and in full possession of an economy that is competitive, dynamic, robust and resilient.

Moreover, there can be no fully developed Malaysia until we have finally overcome the nine central strategic challenges that have confronted us from the moment of our birth as an independent nation. If we go throught one by one, the...