Govt will work with Chinese community leaders on new ideas to tackle challenges: PM

With a more complex external environment and deepening economic challenges, policies that once worked may no longer be effective.

- Chin Soo Fang

That is why the Government must respond to this new reality by working with community partners to come up with new ideas and approaches, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said on Nov 29 at a dinner event with Chinese community groups.

These values include prizing education as a means to broaden one's horizons and uplift the family; putting community before self by advocating social harmony and multiracialism; and working for the benefit of future generations, said PM Wong in Mandarin.

"My team and I are committed to working hand in hand with the Chinese community to uphold common values, strengthen cooperation, and build a better home for future generations," he said.

At the dinner at Hilton Singapore Orchard, PM Wong also thanked Chinese community leaders, many of whom he had interacted with in his 25-year career in public service.

He credited them with fostering mutual trust and respect between the Government and the community, besides helping to strengthen social cohesion, preserve Chinese Singaporean culture and assist local companies in expanding abroad.