>>reporter: it's called the economic transformation programme. and it's the result of months of discussion and input, from the public, private sector, civil service and government. >>razak: we need to take the high-skill, high-income route to quickly become and remain competitive and face all the other challenges in the global economy. we have absolutely no choice, no option. >>reporter: it was back in 1991 that then-prime minister mahathir mohamed first announced the goal of making malaysia a fully developed country by the year 2020. but the asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 saw economic growth and private investment slump... and they never fully recovered. >>reporter: while under mahathir, vision 2020 was more of a slogan than a programme, najib razak's team have aimed to lay out a detailed roadmap of how to actually reach the target. >>reporter: it will require sustaining economic growth of at least six per cent a year in order to double average incomes in less than a decade. >>jala: in the first half of this year, our economy grew at 9.5 pe