Penang State Government Chinese New Year Message By Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng In Komtar, George Town On 13.2.2018.
Penang Rising Together
As we welcome the Year of The Dog, the Penang State government wishes everyone wealth, health, safe and a prosperous New Year!
The legendary American investor Warren Buffet identified productivity and innovation as the critical success factors of generating wealth. Jack Ma of Alibaba said that you must surround yourself with smart people and always employ those smarter than you. Both men stresses on investing in education and pursuing excellence to win the future.
However the conditions that make this possible is important. Penang offers a framework of becoming a successful economy belonging to all. In our quest to becoming an international and intelligent city, Penang has chosen to be both an entrepreneurial and welfare state based on 5 strategic pillars.
1. Building human talent especially STEM education of science, technology, engineering and maths to be actively involved in the Industry 4.0 Revolution;
2. Building physical infrastructure and communications, especially digital connectivity;
3. Working towards a livable city that is clean, green, safe and healthy;
4. Adopting good governance and clean leadership based on competency, accountability and transparency(CAT);
5. Embracing sustainable development to establish a habitat that protects not only the environment but also those in need.
These aspirations are not wishful thinking. Penang has recorded some amazing achievements and is now a location of choice for investors as well as a favoured destination of tourists. Topping it up, is our financial performance not just in recording annual budget surpluses, doubling of asset reserves and an astonishing 90% reduction in state debts, the lowest in the country. Penang is the only state government to be commended by Transperncy International.
All this is achieved despite disbursing out more than RM500 million in cash payments to the public. Penang has also turned around our seedy reputation as the dirtiest state in the country into one of the cleanest cities not just in Malaysia but also in ASEAN! We are proud of our UNESCO World Heritage City of George Town, just as we are proud of being the only state in Malaysia over the last 12 years that has not touched a single square inch of our forest reserves.
We can do more. We can succeed if we unite as a people around common values that is good and just. Penangites celebrate diversity, regardless of race and religion, because we have more in common than the small differences that divide us. Just as we will overcome the challenges together, Penang shall also rise together.
Penang Rising Together!
LIM GUAN ENG
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槟城州首席部长林冠英于2018年2月13日在乔治市光大发表的农历新年献词
槟城崛起
槟城州政府在迎接戌戊旺旺年的狗年之际，要祝福大家在接下来的一年恭喜发财、身体健康、出入平安、万事胜意！
世界知名的美国股神巴菲特证实获得财富的关键因素除了生产与创新别无他法。阿里巴巴的马云也说你必须与聪明人为伍，而且还要聘请比你聪明的人。这两位商业巨子皆投资在教育及追求卓越以赢得未来。
然而，要把上述说法皆变为可能，拥有先决条件很重要。有鉴于此，槟城已经架构出一个属于全民的经济框架。为了致力于成为国际与智慧城市，槟城已经成为一个企业州与福利州，这企业州与福利州之所以能并驾齐驱是因为有以下5个顶梁柱驱使：
1. 培养科学、科技、工程与数学的STEM人才，让州内人才能及时参与全球性的工业4.0革命。
2. 建立实体设施与联络网，尤其是数码联系。
3. 致力成为清洁、绿化、安全与健康的宜居城市。
4. 采纳能干、公信、透明的CAT施政方针，带来良政与廉洁领袖。
5. 拥抱永续发展理念，以实现不只兼顾环境保护，也符合人民居住需求的栖息地。
这些愿望并没有停留在梦想阶段。槟城在不少领域已经取得惊人的成就，如今成为投资者首选的投资地，游客青睐的名胜地。还有我们州政府的财政表现不只每年取得盈余，储备翻倍，债务更减少了90%，成为全马最低债务的州属。槟城是国际透明组织在报告中唯一曾经点名称赞的大马州属。
即便这些年来我们为了槟城人的福利已经颁发了5亿现金廉政红利，体恤槟城各社会阶层，我们仍有余力达成上述种种惊人成就。我们甚至从全马最肮脏的州属转变成为不只全马也是全东协国家最清洁的城市之一！就像我们为乔治市成为联合国教科文组织的世界遗产感到自豪，我们也为槟城是全马唯一在这12年来不曾染指一寸一毫州内森林保留地的州属而自豪。
只要秉持着良善与正直普世价值的我们能团结一致，我们绝对还能做得更多更好。槟城人不分种族与宗教，赞美歌颂多元社会，因为我们更乐于“求同”，即使有些许“存异”也不能分化我们。让我们一起攻克种种挑战，让槟城的光辉冉冉升起。
槟城崛起!
林冠英