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I am afraid that there is no one -lost approach in the world that can test a person's loyalty to the country. Outsiders passing "English test" prove that he will be loyal to Singapore. This is a joke.
The review and debate of the department's expenditure of this fiscal year has just been stunned.There is a debate that despite the lack of sparks, it also echoed and attracted a lot of attention on the Internet.
The Secretary -General of the Workers' Party Bi Danxing on February 27 in Congress debate, criticizing the government for "not transparent" on the issue of immigration selection, he even suggested that English tests are used as the selection of new immigrants.
Bi Danxing takes Switzerland as an example, saying that applicants must have lived in Switzerland for 10 years and hold permanent residence permits; officials summon applicants for personal interviews, focusing on their understanding of Switzerland; they must be able to answer Switzerland about Switzerland.Geography, history, politics and society issues.He asked: Do we have similar requirements?He said: "Singaporeans don't want those new immigrants who don't want to live here. They only look at the strength and convenience of re -re -deleted Pass passports, and Singapore's safe and stable environment, which is conducive to their assets and wealth."
At first glance, his words have a certain reason.However, the advantages of Singapore in his mouth are commendable in any country.
For those with excellent conditions, "there is no place here, there are places to stay," some foreign talents have found after a period of time in Singapore that the development here has a bottleneck and seek him.This is the human nature, and the native Singaporeans are not the same.Moreover, "going out" is what the new world is encouraged by the government.
After foreign talents are naturalized in Singapore, their children grew up in Singapore, and they wanted to pull up their roots and seek another development.We cannot reject them because migrants may treat Singapore as a springboard.
Bi Danxing's "political correctness" remarks are not fresh, maybe represent the views of many people, but they can't stand the in -depth debate.I am afraid that there is no one -lost approach in the world, which can test a person's loyalty to the country; outsiders who pass the "English test" prove that they will loyal to Singapore. This is a joke.On the contrary, people with strong English ability can go wherever they go, he can pass the "loyalty test" everywhere.
Bi Danxing's "suggestion" attracted the serious response of the minister.Yang Liming, Minister of Communications and News and Second Minister of the Ministry of the Interior, pointed out that Bi Danxing's proposal has three reasons for incompetence: First, the applicant has been working here for more than three years, and the English test is more.The spouse's spouse, unless we do not welcome immigrants to bring a spouse, the English test is not meaningful; the third is that the locals do not speak English. Is it not more that they are more integrated into the local society than the Chinese people who speak English?
Based on these three reasons, no wonder Yang Liming said that Bi Danxing's English test suggestion surprised her.She also further stated that Singapore considers various signs of social integration, including whether applicants have been educated locally, whether they have served military service, and their age and economic contribution; all applicants must also complete the ""Singapore Citizen Tour", this plan helps participants to better understand Singapore's history and culture.
The minister is talking about the basic principles of review, not as simple as Bidan Xing's "opaque".
From 2020 to 2022, about 200 overseas investors have become permanent residents of Singapore under the Global Investor Programme of the Economic Development Bureau.
From 2011 to 2020, the planned investors brought more than 5.46 billion yuan in direct investment and created more than 24,000 jobs.
The government attracts investment immigrants not only in terms of money. The Development Bureau will regularly review it to ensure that investors under the plan are rooted in Singapore and contribute to Singapore's economy and employment market.
The Economic Development Bureau announced on March 2 that Singapore will increase the investment threshold for the global investor plan to obtain Singapore's permanent residency right, and the applicant's company must also hire more Singapore citizens.
The overall fertility rate of residents in Singapore has been as low as 1.05. Attracting foreign immigrants is a policy of looking at the long -term interests of the country, a social issue, and a political issue.This discussion has a certain degree of sensitivity.
Bi Dan Xing's subtext is already a "English country" in Singapore. Whoever wants to join us will have to speak English.In this way, applicants from India and the Philippines from the popularity of English, such as India and the Philippines, must have an advantage. His does not mean to say exports, so many people can hear and hear it very unhappy.
The older generation of Chinese Singaporeans are subject to Chinese education. Although their number is getting less and less and English ability is limited, this does not mean that their "Singaporeans" are not enough.Moreover, the basic Singlish ability is enough to make local residents and migrants live like fish here.The new generation of Chinese people also use Singlish as a sign of Singaporeans. Any foreigner can gradually enter a good situation for three months in Singapore. It does not need to be "tested". Generally, it has the ability to "integrate".
Bi Danxing does not provide any examples of English countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada that immigrants must pass the English test to make themselves.
He lacks constructiveness and does not think deeply. The suggestion of "suggestion for the suggestion" has attracted a reasonable answer of the minister, so that we can better understand the basic ideas of Singapore's acceptance of immigration.Therefore, Bi Danxing brought us seven points of surprise and three points of suspicion, and finally made a "constructive" contribution to the discussion of relevant topics.
The reason why Singapore is "close to far away", and Xiaochi can attract big fish, in addition to political Qingming, economic developed, national security, social stability, etc.People are easy to adapt.
Language is not an obstacle, unless we are going to introduce foreign nurses.If you want to test them, it should be to test whether they will speak Fujian or Chaozhou or Cantonese. Several dialects will be prioritized.Of course, this is also a joke. Readers don't have to take it seriously.
(the author is a special commentator in Lianhe Zaobao)
