Mr. President,Friends and Colleagues,And fellow Singaporeans,We have had a pivotal General Election. It took place during SG50, marking the beginning of a new chapter for us.As a people, we faced critical choices in this election. We had to decide whom we wanted to form the Government, which team to

My fellow Singaporeans,Half a century ago, when we embarked on our nation-building journey, we could not yet call ourselves &quotone people&quot. We found it hard to imagine how we would survive on our own, let alone progress together.But despite the odds, we made it. Last year, in SG50, we celebrat

新加坡领土狭小，自然资源缺乏，但综合国力却多次被排在世界的前五位，其唯一的资源就是“人”。这一独特的国情，使新加坡尤其重视教育在繁荣外向型经济、增强国力和促进各民族共同发展中的先行地位。因此，新加坡的幼儿教育呈现出鲜明的特征。新加坡是一个拥有多个民族、多种语言、多元文化的国家。政府推行精英政策，即由精英人才治理国家，由精英人才管理各行各业，同时致力于提高国民素质，依靠丰富的人力资源和人才优势与他国竞争。因此，政府非常重视教育。而四大种族(华族、马来族、印族、欧亚种族)中的华族深受儒家思想的影响，尤其重视子女的教育。由于新加坡独有的条件和特色，英语成为各民族的共同语，使不同种族间建立起了认同感和