On The Basic Strategies Of People's Action Party To Build The Harmonious Society Of Singapore

Singapore is"the most harmonious and most stable country of the emerging countries in the Southeast Asia."This harmonious community picture of Singapore is the result of the successful governance of People's Action Party(PAP) which is the ruling party of Singapore. These successful ruling strategies of PAP include establishing the governing idea of guiding and implementing Singapore harmonious society, building a dominant political system to construct harmonious society, developing efficient economic mechanisms to support the construction of harmonious society, perfecting the legal system to safeguard Singapore harmonious society, and strengthening the mass base to impetus the development of harmonious society of Singapore. Singapore was independent in 1959. People's Action Party has won the election in the May of the same year and run Singapore's political power till now. Singapore is narrow and small, and resources in poor. Under the situation of losing the central-land of Malaysian at the beginning of the party being in power, she was facing a series of complex problems from home and abroad, namely"the domestic market was very small, the labor-management relation was intense, the unemployment phenomenon was serious, the racial conflict happened frequently, the social conflict was ready to break up at a touch, and the relationships with India, Malaysia and Singapore were subtle and intense, the tide of resisting Chinese occurred repeatedly, the indo-Sona war was going violently, the superpowers and the Power politics were staring at the young country maliciously. Under this kind of precarious difficult situation, Lee Kuan Yew and other leaders of PAP have adopted brilliant governing policies which has suited Singapore's survival and development, and all these has just based on Singapore's national situation. PAP led her people to obtain the long-time survival and high-speed development, realizied political, economic, cultural and social great harmony of Singapore during only fifty years. Singapore is a"pocket-sized"country with only 640 square kilometers area, and her natural resources are very deficient. But the small country has successed splendidly in construction and development in short time , which has attracted worldwide attention. So PAP's basic governing strategies and experiences are worth us studying and referencing.