转自 http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/8m-population-2030
Saturday, Nov 30, 2013
SINGAPORE – Earlier this year, Singaporeans balked at the idea of having 6.9 million people on our tiny island. But some experts, including Dr Parag Khanna, Senior Fellow at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, has said that Singapore can fit 8 million or more by 2030.
That is, if urban planning plays its part in spreading out the load.
“There is a much more physically devolved Singapore in which the towns play a much stronger role, in which there’s much more local economic activity and vibrancy, in which everyone is not cramping down into Orchard or CBD every single day. And that Singapore can most certainly accommodate a couple million more people.”
Dr Khanna was speaking at The Straits Times Global Outlook Forum on Friday.
Population aside, he said that Singapore is also on its way to becoming a leading info state, using technology to canvas information and public opinion.
“As part of the national conversation here, people were creating stories about certain towns and areas within Singapore, and even geo-coding their emotions through various iPhone apps. There are all sorts of ways to harness these technologies.”
In an earlier dialogue, The Straits Times correspondents and economic experts discussed key issues affecting Asia, including increased tension between China, Japan and the United States after Beijing unilaterally established an air defence identification zone over the East China Sea.
Peh Shing Huei, deputy news editor, The Straits Times:
“For Beijing, having this air defence zone is an useful experiment to a certain extent. If this air defence zone over Diao Yu Dao or Senkaku, should pay off in terms of a weak response from the Americans, then that would very much embolden the Chinese government when it comes to Taiwan going forward.
But of course, as we have seen with the B-52 bombers, that experiment has kind of failed and um.. pretty much a miscalculation.”
The Straits Times Global Outlook Forum is now in its second year. Minister for Law and Foreign Affairs K Shanmugam was the event’s guest-of-honour.
600万达到了吗？
2030到不了800万，可能600多万，政府的长远规划肯定超过800万，也许2040或者2050^_^
看来大士那边还要使劲填，使劲造
朝着1KW猛烈的前进
前段时间不是有说要搞地下发展规划么？到时候一些仓库啊，巴士中转站什么的都挪地下去，可以再造一个新加坡了，何止800万
增加人口应该是对本地经济最直接见效最快的推动。
把东部的德光岛和本岛连接
新加坡这个岛国，却没有一个壮观的大桥。太遗憾。