Seri Kembangan, Selangor, Malaysia

🇲🇾 Seri Kembangan, formerly known as Serdang New Village, is a town located in Petaling District, Selangor, Malaysia. The town is now a considerable city in size. It is located near the northern end of the PLUS Expressway Southern Route North–South Expressway Southern Route.

History Seri Kembangan was established as the Serdang New Village in 1950 when the British moved Malaysian Chinese villagers living around Sungai Besi to a centralised location due to the Communist threat during the Malayan Emergency as part of the Briggs Plan.

In its early days, the village had 50 houses and all were built from scratch because the British only provided empty plots of land. The area was close to rubber estates and the jungle posed dangers of a different kind. Most of the 15,000 inhabitants earned meagre incomes as mining workers and rubber tappers.

At one point, the Seri Kembangan New Village was known for cottage industries like shoe-making and type settings services but this has been overtaken by more profitable ventures.

There are now 2,500 houses with only a smattering of the original wooden houses left and the population is estimated to be 150,000, largely made up of entrepreneurs, businessmen, professionals, government servants who are working in Putrajaya and other multinational corporations employees located in Cyberjaya.

The only form of entertainment around the vicinity in the 1950s until the 1970s was a cinema.

After the 1998 Commonwealth Games, more developments took place from 2000 onwards and other prominent developments includes AEON Equine Park, McDonald's, Pasar Borong Selangor (wholesale market), Maybank, Giant Hypermarket and other businesses transformed this area into a business hub.

Economy: Retail Seri Kembangan has three major malls: the aforementioned The Mines Shopping Mall, an AEON store in Taman Equine, Giant Hypermarket, and South City Plaza.

Food Seri Kembangan is known for its good and varied street food, incorporating Chinese, Malay, Indian and other races' influences into its literal melting pot. The best places to savour street cuisine include Seri Kembangan Night Market and Seri Serdang Night Market (opens every Monday and Friday nights). The more prominent local dishes include nasi lemak, asam laksa, char kway teow, curry noodle, mamak fried mee, rojak and cendol.

Tourist Industry Seri Kembangan is home to the Mines Wellness City, a healthcare-oriented resort city. There used to be a theme park known as Mines Wonderland, which operated between 1997 and 2011. The development project also featured a shopping mall and the Palace of the Golden Horses, a luxury hotel.

Car Seri Kembangan is located at the intersection of three tolled highways - PLUS North–South Expressway Southern Route, Besraya and KLS East–West Link Expressway. The Maju Expressway runs near the western fringe of this township. The interchange with KESAS and MRR2 Federal Route 28 lies nearby.

Consequently, Seri Kembangan is regarded as the southern gateway into Kuala Lumpur for motorists travelling from southern Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Malacca or Johor.

Public transportation The main rail station serving Seri Kembangan is  KB05  KTM Serdang, part of the KTM Komuter network operated by state railway operator KTMB.

The MRT Putrajaya line Phase 2 project that was completed and opened on March 16, 2023 features six stations that are located serving areas in Seri Kembangan, Serdang Jaya, Serdang Raya and Universiti Putra Malaysia.

Alternately there is the  SP16   PY29  Sungai Besi MRT station which is about 4 km north.

Education • Universiti Putra Malaysia • PORTMAN College • SK Taman Universiti • SK Seri Serdang • SK Serdang • SK Desaminium • SK Taman Sungai Besi Indah • Sekolah Menengah Universal Hua Xia • S.J.K.(C) Bukit Serdang • S.J.K.(C) Serdang Baru 1 • S.J.K.(C) Serdang Baru 2 • S.J.K.(C) Kung Man • S.J.K.(T) Serdang • SMK Seri Serdang • SMK Seri Indah • SMK Seri Kembangan • SMK Desaminium • Hua Xia International School • Kingsgate International School • Alice Smith School, Secondary Campus (International & Private School) • Australian International School Malaysia - located in MINES Resort City. • Rafflesia International & Private School.