Why can Singapore People's Action Party be in power for a long time?

In the process of research, what interests me most is that the Singapore People's Action Party (PAP) has been in power for a long time since it took office in the 1959 general election. How did they seize the hearts of the people and achieve long-term governance? In my opinion, there are mainly the following three aspects: first, there is a national governance model that conforms to the national conditions and the wishes of the people and has Singapore characteristics. What kind of governance mode a country adopts is inseparable from its geographical, social, cultural and historical background. Singapore is a highly urbanized country with high population quality and concentrated residence. Cities are countries, and countries are cities. The country is small, with few people and few management levels, and the party and government have strong control over the grassroots. Influenced by the British parliamentary system and civil service system for a long time, Singapore has formed a relatively complete legal system and a high-quality civil service team. Singapore is a country made up of immigrants, where eastern civilization based on Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and Legalism in China and western civilization based on Christianity are combined perfectly. According to the actual situation in Singapore, the People's Action Party (PAP) has established a set of identical values that integrate the values of the East and the West, formulated an action line that combines democratic socialism with capitalism, and established a political system and social management system that combines parliamentary democracy with elite governance, and the rule of law with the rule of virtue. Such a national governance model conforms to the national conditions and provides a political system guarantee for the long-term governance of the People's Action Party. Singapore is a democratic country with parliamentary elections. The five-year general election is a Damocles sword hanging over the People's Action Party (PAP). The danger of losing political power has always filled them with a sense of crisis, prompting them to never forget the people and giving them the inner permanent motivation to serve the people. The second reason: there are a group of social elites who are willing to contribute, have a heart to serve the society and have the ability to rule the country and level the world. An important feature of the People's Action Party is that its members are the most important cadres of the party. The ability and quality of parliamentarians are related to the ruling status and level of the party. This important position of parliamentarians determines that the construction of the party's cadre team must first select high-quality party parliamentarians. The People's Action Party (PAP) mainly recruits talents from capable and moral elites such as doctors, lawyers, accountants, university professors, entrepreneurs and bankers. If they find the right person, they will try their best to attract them to PAP. In order to maintain the party's vitality and competitiveness, the People's Action Party has to introduce 20%-30% new members in every general election. Therefore, in every general election, the People's Action Party can always take the best and most suitable candidates as candidates for constituency members and win the general election through them. At present, among the 84 MPs, 82 are members of the People's Action Party, including the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister, as well as the ministers, ministers and deputy ministers of 15 ministries. It is these members who, on the one hand, discuss politics in congress and turn the will of the party into the will of the law and the country; On the other hand, leading the civil servants in the government, transforming the Party's ideas into government policies and measures, so as to achieve efficient management of society. The People's Action Party (PAP) improves the performance of public services through its effective ruling behavior and wins the hearts of the people with its recognized ruling performance. This is the most fundamental way for the People's Action Party to connect with the masses, and it is also the fundamental place for it to gain the support of the masses. An important experience of the People's Action Party (PAP) is the establishment of a perfect system for parliamentarians to contact the masses. Members of the People's Action Party also serve as the chairman of the constituency party branch, and the party branch has branch secretaries and members. Their main task is to help parliamentarians meet the people, collect public opinions, keep close contact with the masses, and win the support of voters when the general election is coming. The members of the People's Action Party are a group of politicians who can read the hearts of Singaporeans. They are good at mass work, know what the masses think and need, dare to face the masses, and have the ability and means to help them solve problems. Members of the People's Action Party should receive voters in rented kindergartens, activity centers and other public places every night. During his term of office, every member of parliament must visit the families of the residents in the constituency at least once. Members of the People's Action Party (PAP) strive for various aid funds and government grants for their constituencies, solve practical problems for voters, win their support and recognition, and establish their prestige in their constituencies. The People's Action Party regards contact with voters as its most direct way to contact the masses, which is also an important place for it to gain support from the masses. Reason 3: There is a social grass-roots organization with sound network, wide coverage and strong organizational mobilization ability. One of the characteristics of Singapore's social grass-roots organization structure is that social groups and non-governmental organizations are relatively developed, and the tentacles of social grass-roots organizations penetrate into every corner of society, and their leaders are basically absorbed into associations and organizations directly or indirectly controlled by the People's Action Party. Therefore, these grassroots social organizations are in the hands of the People's Action Party. Members of Congress are not only the branch chairmen of constituency party organizations, but also the chairmen of community foundations and consultants of people's associations. In other words, all the good things of "serving the people" are taken care of by members of the Party Congress and grassroots organizations controlled by the People's Action Party. Here, there is no party leadership, only the party's service, no party shape, only the party's God. Social grass-roots organizations are the link between the People's Action Party and the masses, and also an effective means for the People's Action Party to gain their support. The People's Association and the People's Action Party Community Fund have played an important role. The People's Association is a statutory body under the Ministry of Social Youth and Sports of Singapore, and it is the management body of social organizations and grass-roots organizations. The chairman of the association is Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. The People's Association is a bridge between the government and the masses, the competent organization of a huge community network and the right-hand man of the People's Action Party. Its purpose is to organize and promote people's active participation in social, cultural, educational and sports activities through grass-roots organizations such as citizens' advisory committees, people's clubs, residents' committees and neighborhood committees, to provide different services and care for various associations and social groups, to promote racial harmony, to increase community cohesion, to bring people closer to the government, and to turn the ideas and opinions of the Action Party into concrete actions of the people, thus becoming the most basic organizational network for the state to control the whole country. The People's Action Party Community Fund is a non-profit social welfare organization and an important way for the People's Action Party to contact and serve the masses. The headquarters of the Community Fund and the People's Action Party are in the same building, and they are closely linked, which not only ensures the smooth operation of the fund, but also establishes the image of the party being close to the people. Mainly to provide some services for the community that grassroots government organizations can't provide. It runs Action Party kindergartens, child care centers, children's libraries and computer-assisted classrooms in the community, and also provides some benefits for the constituency, such as medical care plans and student scholarships. Every HDB has an Action Party kindergarten, which aims to cultivate the sense of identity of the Action Party from an early age and win the support of parents and voters. Community funds also help residents' committees to provide various services to residents, winning the hearts and minds of the People's Action Party and voters. The ruling belief of the People's Action Party is people-oriented, caring for the masses and the grassroots. Party cadres (party member, members of parliament, community leaders of the Party, etc.). ) is the most powerful subject to carry out the party's ideas. In Singapore, policy formulation, implementation and feedback have formed a virtuous circle. Parliamentarians played a key role, and every link could not be separated from them. They listen to public opinion through social grass-roots organizations, understand people's needs and thoughts, and refine people's wishes and opinions, which become the reference and basis for the party and the state to formulate various policies. Then through the control of government departments, various policies and measures to benefit the people are formed. Social grass-roots organizations have played an important role in this cycle. They are propagandists of Party and government policies, collectors of public opinion and organizers of community activities. With them, the community will work under the guidance of the People's Action Party. The report of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out: After revolution, construction and reform, our party has changed from leading the people in the struggle to seize the national political power to leading the people to master the national political power and be in power for a long time. It is necessary to change from revolutionary party consciousness to ruling party consciousness, from party-building concept to party-building concept, from focusing on developing party member, establishing organizations, increasing quantity and coverage to focusing on quality, giving play to its role, and improving social influence, integration and mobilization of grassroots organizations. To learn from the Singapore People's Action Party, we must learn from their ruling ideas, including the ideas of political parties, government management and social development, and combine the reality of China to emancipate our minds and constantly explore new ways and methods to strengthen the construction of grass-roots organizations. He who wins the hearts of the people wins the world, and the stability of the people is the stability of the world. As a place where people live and live, community is an important place for the party and the government to understand and win the hearts of the people, and it is also an important channel for the people to understand government policies and reflect their demands. Therefore, strengthening community party building and community construction should be considered from two aspects: the party and the government should play a leading role in community construction. Party committees and governments should play the role of macro-planning, organization and coordination, and policy guidance, and take serving the masses and winning the hearts of the people as the foothold of their work. In the future assessment, evaluation and examination of leading bodies and team members, it is necessary to increase the livelihood indicators more scientifically and reasonably, expand the scope of investigation, take the community as an important aspect of understanding the object of investigation, and guide leading cadres to pay more attention to people's livelihood and people's hearts. It is necessary to take the voice of the masses as the weather vane, provide protection from many aspects such as people, money, materials and systems, do a good job in the project of popular support around medical care, food, housing, transportation, learning and industry, and further enhance the prestige of the party and the government among the masses. The government should take the community service center as a platform to serve the masses, further improve the hardware facilities and service items, and make the service center a comprehensive functional body integrating social affairs, entertainment, training and party-mass activities. Focus on straightening out the management system, highlight the functions of social management and public service, and further transform the functions of streets. Street Party Working Committees and offices, as agencies of the district committees and governments, directly affect the image of the party committees and governments. At present, the function orientation of streets is not reasonable enough, which leads to the lack of management and service functions for the public and weakens the influence at the grassroots level. It is necessary to gradually abolish the economic management functions such as attracting investment from sub-district offices and give them more functions and rights of overall planning, coordination and supervision. Strengthen community public services, with the main functions of helping residents find employment, implementing residents' security, improving living environment, solving residents' living difficulties, providing residential safety, doing civil assistance, taking charge of civil mediation, and doing a good job in residents' culture and entertainment; Strengthen the function of community management, and implement networked community management in community ecological environment, medical and health care, cultural construction, public security management, property management and greening maintenance. Grass-roots organizations should play a leading role in community construction. We should take expanding the influence of grass-roots party organizations as the key to further improve the party's core role in grass-roots leadership. Grass-roots party organizations should focus on regional, mass, social and public welfare work, and strive to infiltrate the party's work into community politics, economy, culture, life and other aspects to improve the integration, mobilization and influence in grass-roots work. It is necessary to explore new ways for party member cadres and members of the "Two Represents and One Committee" to contact and serve the masses. By understanding people's feelings, participating in people's livelihood, reflecting public opinion, winning people's hearts and caring for the needs of the masses, we can better expand the influence of the Party and enhance its image. We should take serving the masses as the center and further improve all kinds of community organizations. Vigorously develop non-governmental, non-profit, autonomous grass-roots community groups and community intermediary organizations, promote the establishment of cooperative partnerships among social groups, governments and community residents, and effectively realize the internal integration of community resources. Community neighborhood committees should overcome the tendency of administration, peel off functional affairs accordingly, highlight the role of mass autonomous residents' organizations, and entrust some public functions originally undertaken by community neighborhood committees to social organizations and social work institutions by purchasing services, so that community neighborhood committees can devote more energy to serving the masses, further enhance the sense of belonging and identity of community residents and improve community cohesion.