YB Liew Chin Tong

Deputy Minister of Investment, Trade & Industry

Liew Chin Tong is the Deputy Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry. He is currently the Member of Parliament for Iskandar Puteri and the State Assemblyperson for Perling, Johor. He works with Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz with the New Industrial Master Plan (NIMP 2030) as a guiding document, focusing on the semiconductor and steel industries, among others. When he served as Deputy Defence Minister from July 2018 to February 2020, he supported Minister Mohammad Sabu’s effort to present Malaysia’s first ever Defence White Paper which was passed in Parliament on 2 December 2019. Chin Tong is the Strategy Director of Democratic Action Party (DAP). He recently published “Second Takeoff: Strategies for Malaysia’s Economic Resurgence” which outlined his vision for the emergence of Malaysia as a middle class society.