Study On Lee Kuan Yew’s Thinking Of The Singapore’s People’s Action Party Building

The success of Singapore lies in the correct leadership of People’s Action Party, and the reason whyPeople’s Action Party can be in office for such a long time is its excellent leader, Lee Kuan Yew.As for the issues why built up a party and what kind of Party should be built up, Lee Kuan Yew givesus the answer. As the initiator of People’s Action Party, he founded the Party timely by analyzingSingapore’s particular historical background and its temporal political circumstances, with the aim ofsubverting colonialism, gaining the ruling position, and building up a clean and efficient government todevelope Singapore for the benefit of its people.Ever since the foundation of People’Action Party, under Lee Kuan Yews leadership, it hasgained the ruling position and become the single ruling party in Singapore.With each day passing, it hasgone deep into public minds and has a solid mass base, and the content of Lee Kuan Yew’s Partyconstruction thought has been increasingly rich.“Asian values” not only makes People’s Action Partyand Singapore’s people cohesive, but also efficiently strikes back the erosion of the Singapore’s youngergeneration by the western thought of freedom and slackness; awareness of hardship, which has dominatesthe Party and national people, reminds contentiously them of those huge efforts paid for today’sachievements, makes the younger generation realize the hardships paid for today’s happy life, and urgesthe Party to take swift and effective actions to deal with the current resource crisis and the developmentbottleneck which Singapore and its ruling party is faced with; those standards such as “being usable”,“being feasible”, which development awareness and pragmatism actually lay much stress on, bringSingapore dramatic development and create economic miracles one by one; it is the self-improvementthought in leadership that secures People’Action Party’s continuous ruling position and helps it keep upwith the times.The party organization construction thought that with the characteristics of shape dispersing but spiritconcentrating makes the strength of the Party ubiquity, and paves a way to a solid mass base for enforcingits policies and winning the general election; the talented person troops construction thought that elites administer a country, broadens the network of talents, and then aids the Party to seek out the political eliteswho are fit for the development of Singapore; the image construction thought shapes the Party intofavorable image and plays a good directive role in securing large numbers of voters; the “self-purifying”mechanism guarantees the honesty of the party members and the purity of the Party’s atmosphere, andpurifys and unifys the ideology of the party members, thus maintaining the Party’s fine image; theironfisted conduct prevents them from committing corruption, and heavy fines regulate Singaporeanbehaviors and bring about a good quality of life and investment environment.Lee Kuan Yew’s party construction thought is a sapiential achievement which combines the Party’sdevelopment reality and creative practice. Meanwhile, it has such unique features as pragmatical, flexible,tough,dialectical and so on.Lee Kuan Yew’s party construction thought plays a vital directive role whether in the history ofPeople’s Action Party or in the history of rising to power and position. It is the wise crystal of thecollective leadership’s practice, the theoretical promise of the Party’s ruling position, the scientificindicator of Singapore’s constant development, and the precious intellectual wealth of Singapore’s people.It will exert more advantages for the Party’s future ruling and its content will become increasingly rich andperfect with the constant development of People’s Action Party.