#50 [🌏 Business Outlook 2025] SCCCI – Maybank Mid-Year Business Outlook Forum 2025 新加坡中华总商会与马来亚银行联合主办 2025年中经济展望论坛（华语）

🗓 17 July 2025
📍Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry
🔍 “Insight into Disruption, Breaking Through Adversity”
世界经贸新秩序：洞察变局，逆势突围

As global uncertainties persist, business leaders, policymakers, and strategists convened at the SCCCI-Maybank Mid-Year Forum to dissect economic shifts and seize regional opportunities.

随着全球经济格局持续变化，新加坡中华总商会与马来亚银行联合举办论坛，邀请政商学界代表，共同探索趋势变化下的前瞻布局与协作契机。

💬 Highlights & Quotes | 精彩观点汇总
🏛 黄泉庆会长 (Mr. Kho Choon Keng, President, SCCCI)
资深部长李显龙近期指出：全球贸易将持续面临关税障碍，但这正是我们加速法律与金融服务发展的机会窗口。

现今科技百花齐放，尤其在中国科技生态圈可见一斑。

国际化布局应着眼东盟，聚焦区域增长动力。

今日论坛也见证中华总商会与马来亚银行新加坡分行正式签署合作备忘录，加强区域企业对接与金融合作。

🏦 庄为业先生 (Mr. Chong Wei Yip, Head of Global Banking, Maybank Singapore)
We’re supporting business financing into Johor with deep roots in ESG principles—because when roots are deep, trees flourish.
我们坚信“生根则叶茂”，致力推动新柔经济合作区内的企业融资与可持续发展。

✅ 颜晓芳女士 (Ms. Siow Huang Gan, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs & Trade and Industry)
Singapore offers a stable economic environment with diversified risk management.
推动跨国实质交易，包括区域贸易协定，是我们的核心战略。

Tripartite taskforces are empowering businesses with buffer strategies, green certifications, and emerging market opportunities.

📊 郑宁女士 (Ms. Chua Ning, Maybank Economist)
📈 15% surge in electronics exports due to early US tariff circumvention
💵 SGD likely to appreciate to 1.25 against USD
📉 SORA 3-month loan rates projected to drop to 1.4%
🍽 Accommodation & F&B facing highest labour cost growth
🏗 Construction projects on the rise—driven by Marina Bay Sands and public sector demand
✈️ Overseas travel surpasses pre-pandemic levels
📉 Inflation hits lowest point in 48 months
🚈 Johor-Singapore RTS to commence in Jan 2027, ART transit projects nearing completion

📚 姚柏坚先生 (Mr. Yeo Pak Kian, Partner, Baker Tilly Singapore)
情报的整合与分割在当今国际战略中扮演关键角色

Japanese companies often set up “Overseas Business Divisions” – a structure now mirrored by many Chinese firms through “BP部门”

Brand segmentation is vital: think Douyin vs. TikTok, Huawei vs. Honor, Xiaomi vs. Redmi

🤝 MOU Signing Ceremony
新加坡中华总商会与马来亚银行（新加坡）分行
签署《谅解备忘录》（MoU），加强在新柔经济特区及区域金融服务的合作。

📄 Mr. Lim Hock Chee (林福星), representing SCCCI, and senior leaders from Maybank Singapore jointly inked the agreement, marking a new chapter in ASEAN-focused economic collaboration.

🌱 Final Thoughts | 结语
As Singapore positions itself as a trusted node in a fragmented global economy, partnerships and policy foresight become critical. Today’s forum not only mapped the trends ahead—but solidified collaborative actions to meet them head-on.

在经济秩序重塑的当下，合作与前瞻尤显关键。此次论坛既提供洞察，也奠定区域合作的坚实基础。

📸 Thank you to SCCCI, Maybank, speakers, and distinguished guests for an insightful session.

感恩中华总商会与马来亚银行的精心筹备，也感谢与会讲者与嘉宾的分享与互动。

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