Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has urged the opposition to support Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's budget revisions announced in Putrajaya today in order to deal with the changing global economic climate.

"We have to be together to overcome the current situation," Zahid told reporters after Najib's special address.

"The problem we are facing is not limited to Malaysia alone, but other countries are facing it too," he said.

Zahid ( left ) called the new measures as something that "needs to be done" given the current situation.

"The factors has been explained by the PM just now," he said.

Zahid also said that among the steps taken to boost the country's income was to offer free visa to several segments of the tourist market, such as the Chinese tourists.

The MH370 air disaster, which saw a Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines flight disappear from radars in March last year while carrying a huge majority of Chinese passengers, coupled by kidnapping of Chinese tourists in Sabah's troubled east coast, had seen dwindling number of Chinese tourists here.

"The cabinet had decided to give free visas to Chinese tourists, in order to attract more tourists," he said.

Najib announced today that the government will focus on empowering small and medium enterprises and increasing the quality of Malaysian products in an effort to increase the quality of private entrepreneurship and then increase export demands.