2022年李显龙总理新年献词（中英文）

Our immediate tasks go beyond managing COVID-19. We must continue to generate new growth, new jobs, and prosperity in a post-pandemic economy. Much will depend on a stable global and regional environment, central to which is relations between the US and China. The differences between the two powers remain many and deep, but their recent high-level engagements and practical cooperation on climate change are encouraging.

For our part, Singapore will continue engaging partners near and far. We will continue to pursue trade liberalisation and regional integration for the benefit of our people, including through the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which comes into force on the first day of 2022.

The year ahead will be a time of transition. Our economy is recovering steadily. Barring fresh disruptions, it should grow in step with global economic recovery. We expect our GDP to grow by three to five percent in 2022. We will progressively phase out emergency support measures as businesses revive, though a few sectors will take longer. We will safely expand cross-border travel and re-connect with the rest of the world, Omicron permitting. We will also press on to bring in much needed migrant workers, and ensure international talents feel welcome and are able to complement Singaporeans.

Beyond the immediate outlook, we are planning ahead to achieve longer term goals. We will press on with our industry transformation efforts to enhance existing strengths, and help companies restructure and workers upgrade their skills. Together with businesses and the labour movement, we will keep investing in our workers to keep them productive and employable throughout their careers. We will seek out new growth areas, including in the digital and green economies, building on our Smart Nation efforts and the Singapore Green Plan 2030.

The pandemic has been a crucible of fire for this generation of Singaporeans. It has shown us the crucial importance of standing united as one. This will not be the last crisis to try us; we will face more tests and trials in our nation building journey. We must strenuously resist powerful external tidal pulls that will strain fault lines in our society, and not allow them to divide us. As successive cohorts come of age with new perspectives and expectations, our societal norms will evolve. We should do this cautiously, maintaining the core values that make us Singaporean.

This requires us to keep up efforts to strengthen our social consensus and shared identity. We must continue forging trust and mutual understanding – both between the Government and the people, and among Singaporeans of all backgrounds. Even amidst the pandemic, we did not neglect this crucial task. We have permitted Muslim nurses in public hospitals to wear tudung with their uniforms. We are actively strengthening fairness at the workplace and support for women, as well as improving protection and retirement adequacy for self-employed persons. Going forward, we will strive to solidify our social compact – mending rifts deepened by the pandemic, uplifting those falling behind, enhancing safety nets for those in need, caring for the mental health of people, and meeting the needs of an aging society. That is the path to a fairer, more inclusive and more united Singapore.

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