Chan Chun Sing (Chinese: 陈振声; Jyutping: Can4 Zan3 Sing1; pinyin: Chén Zhènshēng; born 9 October 1969)[1] is a Singaporean politician and former major-general who has been serving as Minister for Education since 2021 and Minister-in-charge of Public Service since 2018.

[6] He is fluent in three of the four official languages of Singapore namely English, Mandarin and Malay, in addition to his native ethnic Chinese dialect of Cantonese.

[12] Chan made his political debut in the 2011 general election as part of the five-member People's Action Party (PAP) team led by Lee Kuan Yew contesting in Tanjong Pagar GRC.

[15] During the election campaign, Chan used the Hokkien phrase "kee chiu" ("hands up") at a rally to engage the crowd, and the term became a nickname for him.

On 31 July 2012, Chan relinquished his portfolio in the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts and was appointed Senior Minister of State for Defence.

[19] On 1 October 2015, following the 2015 general election, Chan was appointed Deputy Chairman of the People's Association,[20] a role which he held till 2021 before relinquishing it to Edwin Tong.

In the same year, Chan was put in charge of leading the PAP team in Tanjong Pagar GRC after Lee Kuan Yew died in March 2015.

[21] In the lead-up to the 2020 general election, Chan was widely seen as one of the three leading candidates (alongside Heng and Ong Ye Kung) to succeed Lee Hsien Loong as Prime Minister of Singapore.

Non-AOPs who provide quality and affordable programmes can tap on a Teaching & Learning Resources Grant of up to S$4,000 per year for materials and equipment.

On 24 April 2018, it was announced that Chan would succeed Lim Hng Kiang and S. Iswaran as the Minister for Trade and Industry, and would relinquish his NTUC chief portfolio to Ng Chee Meng, effective from 1 May 2018.

In the audio clip, Chan mentioned the PAP's results during elections and the restricting space access north of Seletar Airport.

Chan later wrote on Facebook that the speech took place in 2019 at a closed-door conversation held after Malaysia imposing a restricted flying zone north of Seletar Airport.

[41] On 19 July 2021, Chan visited River Valley High School, Singapore in response to an attack conducted by a student earlier during the day.

[43][44][45] On 5 August 2024, it was announced that the Ministry of Education would be removing the application, Mobile Guardian, from all students’ Personal Learning Devices (PLDs) which were installed with the app as a precaution following an incident on 4 August where 13 000 students from 26 schools had their devices wiped remotely by a perpetrator as part of a cybersecurity breach into Mobile Guardian.