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以下内容为英文原稿：

Speech by Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat at the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce (SICC) Awards on 21 March 2025.

Ms Dawn Tan, Chairwoman, Singapore International Chamber of Commerce or SICC,

Mr Wong Joo Seng, Deputy Chairman, SICC

Board Members of SICC,

Ladies and gentlemen,

Good evening!

First, thank you for inviting me.

I have read and interacted with our finalists to learn about your interesting and innovative work.

Each of you is already a winner - my heartiest congratulations to all the finalists! Your effort is inspiring and exemplary.

I am glad to hear that since 2018, the winners have been featured on a Channel NewsAsia programme to inspire a wider audience. I think this is an excellent move.

As Dawn mentioned earlier, these awards were first launched in 2015, during SG50, in support of the Government’s Partnerships for Capability Transformation, or PACT, programme.

I commend SICC for promoting innovation, particularly collaborative innovation, over this past decade.

Starting out with two categories, you now have expanded to five, reflecting the evolving and dynamic nature of innovation.

SICC’s commitment to bringing businesses together, and connecting local and foreign enterprises, has been longstanding.

SICC has just turned 188 – what a role model for active ageing and healthy longevity!

The Chamber was founded in the 1830s to advocate for Singapore to remain a free port, facilitating trade flows between East and West and supporting the development of an open, inter-connected global economy.

This was around the peak of the first Industrial Revolution, when a proliferation of new technologies led to a surge in manufacturing output, particularly in Western economies.

The economist Adam Smith’s insight on the division of labour, specialisation and free markets laid the foundations for what we know today as modern industry, supply chains and globalised trade.

The division of labour, leveraging on economic complementarities and global competitive forces that drive efficiency and innovation, has spurred higher growth in trade and economic growth, especially in developing economies.

For example, between 1970 and 2023, the exports of goods and services worldwide grew from 12.8% to 29.3% of global GDP.

In that same time period, global GDP per capita rose about 16 times from roughly US$816 to more than US$13,000.

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