Official Strategic Industry Partner · Malaysia China Institute

The bridge between Malaysian talent and China's technology frontier.

JIOS Consulting designs and delivers AI, robotics, electric vehicle and data-centre training programmes across Malaysia and China — for government agencies, universities, TVET institutions, and business leaders building the next generation of technical talent.

JIOS Consulting programme participants gathered outside Alibaba headquarters
Programme participants attending a classroom briefing in Hangzhou
Programme participants observing an interactive robotics demonstration
JIOS Consulting programme participants gathered at Alibaba Cloud
Track 01 · Leadership Immersion JB → Hangzhou (5–6 days)
Track 02 · AI & EV Talent JB → Hangzhou / Chongqing / Hunan / Hebei
Track 03 · Data Centre Academy Stays in Malaysia — Besut, Terengganu
Alibaba Group official partner — since 2017 Malaysia China Institute strategic industry partner Programmes delivered in Hangzhou · Chongqing · Hunan · Hebei Training design for MARA, Ministry of Education & national TVET institutions
About the Partnership

A formal bridge, not a one-off trip.

JIOS Consulting Sdn Bhd has worked as an official Alibaba Group partner since 2017, running AI and robotics leadership immersion programmes out of Hangzhou for Malaysian entrepreneurs, executives and students.

We are now the official strategic industry partner of the Malaysia China Institute (MCI), working alongside MCI, MARA and Chinese vocational universities to design curriculum-based training pathways that give Malaysian students structured, certified, hands-on exposure to China's AI, EV and advanced-manufacturing industries — not a study tour, but a talent-development pipeline built with the institutions that fund and place graduates.

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Who this is for

Government agencies & institutions

MARA, Ministry of Education, TVET colleges and universities looking to place students into funded, certified China-based training pathways.

Also

Business leaders & associations

Franchise associations, hardware and retail executives, and families seeking a first-hand immersion into China's AI, robotics and technology ecosystem.

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Programme Portfolio

Three ways we build technical talent

Two tracks take Malaysian participants into China's leading technology campuses. The third brings live, real-time infrastructure training to Malaysian soil.

01 / Immersion

Leadership Immersion Programmes

5–7 day cohort trips into Alibaba, ByteDance and China's robotics ecosystem — for entrepreneurs, executives and students who need to see it to believe it.

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02 / National Programmes

AI & EV Talent Development

Structured, certified AI and EV training pathways for TVET and university students, proposed under the MARA–MCI framework.

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03 / Infrastructure

Data Centre Academy

Malaysia's first real-time data-centre infrastructure simulation and training academy, developed with TVETMARA Besut.

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Track 01

AI & Robotics Leadership Immersion

Short-form, high-density trips into Hangzhou's technology ecosystem — Alibaba headquarters, ByteDance's R&D centre, and China's most advanced robotics and AIoT companies. Built for people who learn by standing inside the building, not reading about it.

Alibaba & ByteDance AI Leadership Immersion 5 DAYS · 4 NIGHTS · HANGZHOU

Designed for business owners and franchise associations. Combines Alibaba HQ orientation with hands-on Claude Code training for retail — building AI agents for inventory tracking, sales dashboards and customer engagement — plus site visits to PROYA Skincare, T-Chef robotic kitchens, JNBY Fashion Group and the ByteDance R&D centre.

  • Alibaba Global Headquarters campus tour and corporate culture briefing
  • Claude Code applications for retail: inventory, sales dashboards, customer engagement, market-trend agents
  • Enterprise site visits: PROYA Skincare, T-Chef Intelligent Cooking Robots, JNBY Fashion Group
  • AIGC master class using Dreamina, Seedance and CapCut
  • Closing visit to ByteDance's R&D centre, home of Doubao and Seedance AI
Franchise associationsBusiness ownersGraduation ceremony
Five-day itinerary highlights for the Alibaba and ByteDance AI Leadership Immersion programme
Alibaba AI Transformation Bootcamp 5 DAYS · 4 NIGHTS · HANGZHOU · HARDWARE & RETAIL SECTORS

A management-level bootcamp built for hardware and retail executives, covering AI fundamentals through to supply chain automation and AI-powered live streaming — with a site visit to Shenhao Technology's industrial robotics facility.

  • Understanding AI, prompting, and AI agents for business decision-makers
  • AI in HR management, store layout optimisation and inventory cost control
  • Automated supply chain design using Lark Sheets and AI workflows
  • AI in social media marketing, O2O customer acquisition and local-language support
  • AI-powered digital human and live-streaming crash course
  • Site visit to Shenhao Technology — industrial, construction and smart-city robotics
Management & executivesHardware industryProfessional certification
Business leaders attending an AI Transformation Bootcamp classroom session
Hangzhou Robotics & AI Youth Immersion 5 DAYS · 4 NIGHTS · HANGZHOU · AGES 10–17 & FAMILIES

A family-friendly programme built around direct interaction rather than glass-case museum viewing: brain-computer interface control, drone flight, humanoid robots, and Hangzhou's dedicated robot-interaction centres.

  • Alibaba HQ tour and AI Magic Box workshop for young learners
  • Hands-on drone flying at the Naihu Drone Test Base
  • Shenhao Technology's high-voltage inspection robots
  • Xiaoshan Robot Town — interactive portrait, chess and cooking robots
  • BrainCo brain-computer interface session with a personalised focus report
  • Unitree humanoid and robot-dog experience at the Embodied Intelligence Pilot Base
Students & familiesAges 10–17Certificate of completion
Participants interacting with a quadruped robot during the Hangzhou Robotics and AI Youth Immersion
Track 02

AI & EV Talent Development — MARA–MCI Programmes

Structured, curriculum-based training proposed under the MARA–Malaysia China Institute framework, delivered at specialist Chinese vocational universities, and built for TVET and university students seeking a certified technical qualification — not just an exposure trip.

MARA–MCI EV Professional Talent Programme — Dual Campus 12 MONTHS · CHONGQING & HUNAN · 200 STUDENTS

Six months of advanced EV technology training, delivered concurrently at Chongqing Industry Polytechnic University and Hunan Automotive Engineering Vocational University, followed by a six-month industrial internship in Malaysia.

MONTHS 1–3Classroom theory across 16 modules — vehicle architecture, high-voltage safety, battery systems
MONTHS 4–6Hands-on factory & workshop practicum, charging infrastructure and full-vehicle diagnostics
CERTIFICATIONHigh-voltage safety, charging infrastructure and full-vehicle track certification, jointly issued
MONTHS 7–12Six-month industrial internship in Malaysia with EV, battery and charging-infrastructure partners
SKM / Diploma / Polytechnic / TVETDual-campus risk diversificationJob placement pathway
Overview of the six-month EV training and six-month Malaysia internship programme
MARA–MCI EV Technical Immersion Programme 12 DAYS · HEBEI VOCATIONAL UNIVERSITY · 100 STUDENTS

A compact, cost-effective complement to the dual-campus programme — building broad-based EV technical literacy and high-voltage safety competency across a larger student intake, without a post-training internship component.

  • EV industry orientation and full-vehicle architecture fundamentals
  • Dedicated three-day high-voltage safety and emergency-response block, including certified CPR training
  • Battery system diagnostics, drive motor repair, and on-board charging fault diagnosis
  • Standardised maintenance, frontier technology topics (hydrogen fuel cell, V2X, smart cockpit)
  • Closing enterprise site visit to a live EV manufacturing and battery-pack production line
Foundational literacy trackFeeder into deeper specialisation
Twelve-day MARA-MCI EV Technical Immersion Programme overview
AI Masterclass — Hangzhou 7 DAYS · 6 NIGHTS · ALIBABA HQ & UNIVIEW · TVET & UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Moves students beyond passive AI use into building and orchestrating AI agent workflows, then applying those skills to AI-generated content production — with a structured 30-day post-programme action plan for monetisation.

  • AI Agent development track using Codex CLI, Claude Code and multi-agent workflow orchestration
  • Single- and multi-agent business tools: invoice generation, data cleaning, inventory management
  • AI Agent + AIGC fusion: script, visual, dubbing and editing agents producing a complete video
  • Digital human creation and agent-orchestrated social media automation
  • Enterprise visits to Alibaba's Xixi campus and Uniview's AIoT showroom
  • Certification issued by Lingyang Intelligent Technology, an Alibaba Group subsidiary
50–80 students per cohortAll faculties welcome30-day action plan
Programme overview and six-day journey for the AI Masterclass in Hangzhou
Track 03

Data Centre Academy

Developed with TVETMARA Besut — Malaysia's first real-time data-centre infrastructure simulation and training academy. Students learn by operating, failing and recovering live systems, not by reading a manual.

TVETMARA Data Centre Academy infrastructure, curriculum and training overview

Live fault simulation. Instructors inject real electrical, cooling and mechanical faults — utility power loss, UPS battery failure, chiller pump failure, fire suppression triggers — into a Tier-3-ready facility, and students diagnose and recover the system.

A working command centre. Students monitor and control the facility through the same DCIM, BMS and SCADA platforms used in commercial data centres, with real-time alarms, temperature mapping and asset management.

Three training modes. Beginner (guided, step-by-step), Intermediate (independent root-cause analysis), and Expert (multi-scenario coordination under simultaneous faults).

Built for national scale. Positioned to help close Malaysia's growing data-centre workforce gap as the country expands toward becoming an ASEAN data-centre hub.

Tier 1 — Specialist

Strategic & leadership roles

Data centre managers, cloud infrastructure engineers, cybersecurity specialists — capacity planning, reliability strategy and compliance.

Tier 2 — Engineer

Critical decision-makers

Electrical, HVAC, BMS, DCIM and network infrastructure engineers responsible for root-cause analysis and system commissioning.

Tier 3 — Technician

Backbone of the data centre

LV electrical, UPS, switchgear, HVAC and facilities technicians running preventive maintenance, monitoring and shift operations.

Ecosystem collaboration — data centre operators (TM, AIMS, AirTrunk, Bridge, DayOne, Yondr), hardware manufacturers (Schneider Electric, Vertiv, Eaton, Huawei, ABB, Cummins), software & cloud platforms (Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, NVIDIA, AVEVA), and standards bodies (Uptime Institute, BICSI, ASHRAE, TIA, IEEE, The Green Grid).
Data Centre Safety Passport (DCSP) — a national safety credential jointly certified by MARA and Telekom Malaysia, covering electrical & high-voltage safety, cooling system safety, fire & emergency response, and operational safety.
How We Work

How institutions work with us

Every programme is built jointly with the funding body, the host institution in China, and MCI — not sold off a shelf.

01

Consultation

We align on objectives, target cohort, and the appropriate funding pathway — MARA, Ministry of Education, or a corporate sponsor.

02

Curriculum & partner design

JIOS, MCI and the host institution jointly design the module structure, schedule and certification pathway.

03

Delivery

Cohorts travel to the host campus in China, or train locally at the Data Centre Academy in Besut, Malaysia.

04

Certification & outcomes

Joint certification is issued, with internship or job-placement pathways where the programme includes one.

Get In Touch

Let's design your programme.

Whether you're a government agency exploring a funded MARA–MCI pathway, an institution looking to send students to China, or a business leader planning an immersion trip — we'll help you scope the right track.

ContactJeff Leong, Managing Director
Based inJohor Bahru, Malaysia