Singapore's former prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, has left a valuable legacy to the world

Xinhua Beijing, March 23, a comprehensive report, Singapore's former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew died in central hospital in Singapore March 23. Lee Kuan Yew has been in politics for decades, but he has said in his transcript that he does not want to be remembered as a "politician". What is the legacy of the 91-Year-old man's model of governing the world?

Lee Kuan Yew's life is a life of struggle, reflection and continuous "evolution". In addition to the status of wealth these "fake", he poor his life accumulated spiritual wealth, but also left to posterity to comment. As the fourth generation of Li's family in Singapore, his early ideas were shaped by British education. Cambridge, a British university, has fostered his way of doing things, showing leadership and being seen by the teacher at an early age. As it turns out, early education has influenced the thinking mode and ruling idea of his later and even life.

After returning to Singapore for a couple of years as a lawyer for the workers, he realised that Singapore, still under British colonial rule, had no way out. With the gradual rise of the trend of independent thought in the the 1960s, he was stimulated to participate in the formation of the People's Action Party and began to strive for autonomy for Singapore. After several years of hard struggle, in 1959, Singapore divorced from colonial status, the People's Action Party became the largest party in the legislative chamber, and Lee Kuan Yew as prime Minister of the self-governing state government, reached his first peak in politics. The Republic of Singapore was established in 1965, and Lee Kuan Yew became the first Prime Minister of the Republic and began to govern the small and weak country.

In front of the more than 30-year-old, Lee Kuan Yew is a big issue in a "baby-time" republic. Small area of land, lack of resources, weak economy, diplomatic difficult to push ... He thought hard. Step by step, he groped for Singapore's economic and diplomatic path, took a creative step, and began to push the "expert statecraft" strategy that later critics called. It echoes the Western-style education he received before, and in the way of statecraft, he borrows heavily from the management experience of large Western enterprises and the welfare model of European countries, and has achieved results.

From the Government to the economic and livelihood, from the welfare system to the incentive system, Lee Kuan Yew single-handedly created the world's attention to the "Singapore model." He has made Singapore an economic leap, one of the "Asian Dragons", political integrity, corruption, a few have no place, the national unemployment rate is low, high quality, the overall stability of the mentality, the urban construction of neat norms, dubbed the "Garden Country" title, diplomatic "Four double dial", a multi-party "balance", Let this small country, even in the face of the complex international situation can be both ways and easily. He created a vast living space with narrow geographical space, occupied a place on the international stage, and created unique influence.

During his career in politics, Lee Kuan Yew was committed to developing relations between Singapore and China. Since the 1980s, he has visited China for more than 30 visits and met with Chinese leaders to promote the development of bilateral relations. During his visit to China, he said that Singapore appreciates China's internal and external policies, and that China's development is a good thing for both Asia and the world.

As Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of state, has argued, the wisdom and judgment of Mr Lee, who is a political leader, is enough to be a "spiritual mentor" to politicians. But Lee Kuan Yew has said he does not want to be remembered as a politician.

So what kind of person is Lee Kuan Yew, who is a political halo? His grandparents are Hakka, pragmatic character, throughout life. Although he was educated in English from an early age, he worked hard to learn Mandarin and dialect. Especially like to learn and recite the Chinese four words idiom, also like to drink Chinese tea, Chinese Confucian culture, he quite understand. His wife is Cambridge classmate-a respectable lawyer, two children and a woman, the eldest son Lee Hsien Loong is the current prime Minister of Singapore. In his spare time, Lee Kuan Yew loved swimming and running, and lectured to the public on the secrets of longevity. He said, to live to the old, to be old, interested in life, positive attitude, the courage to accept the challenge.

Perhaps the most suitable four-word idiom for the political career of Lee Kuan Yew. Now, the "founding fathers" departed, the "Singapore model" continues. Lee Kuan Yew left the world as a city of glamour. It is perhaps his greatest consolation that the world has remembered this.