Lee Hsien Loong was born in 1952. He is currently the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Singapore. Secretary-General of People's Action Party.
According to the resolution adopted at the meeting of the ruling People's Action Party Central Committee in Singapore on May 29th, 2004, Lee Hsien Loong was elected as the successor of the current Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong of Singapore, becoming the next Prime Minister of the government, and took over as Prime Minister for the third time on August 12, 2004.
Lee Hsien Loong is the eldest son of Lee Kuan Yew, the former prime minister of Singapore's "Father of the Nation" and now a senior cabinet minister.
Lee Hsien Loong was very clever since he was a child.
Zhu Tianshou, president of Nanyang Art College, revealed that he and Lee Hsien Loong were middle school classmates. When they were studying in public middle schools, Lee Hsien Loong did well. He remembers that when he was in middle school, Lee Hsien Loong was good at Chinese, English and Malay, and got better grades in math and physics. In terms of music, in just two years, Lee Hsien Loong has played the clarinet very well and can also play Mozart's concerto, while other brass band members spent the same time and only learned some simple music.
After graduating from local Chinese primary schools and public middle schools, Lee Hsien Loong entered the national junior college. After that, he won the Presidential Scholarship and the Singapore Armed Forces Scholarship, and went to Cambridge University in England for further study. 1974 graduated with a first-class honorary degree in mathematics and a diploma in computer science (cum laude). 197 1 Join the Singapore Armed Forces. 1978 studied the army command and staff course in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA. 1979 received a master's degree in public administration from Kennedy School of Administration, Harvard University. After returning to China, he served as Chief of Staff and Director of Joint Operations and Planning of Singapore Armed Forces. 1June, 984, promoted to brigadier general. In September of the same year, he resigned from the military and became the political secretary of the Minister of National Defense. 1984 12 was elected as a member of parliament and continued to be elected in the general elections of 1988,199, 1997 and 200 1.
1984 65438+February 31-65438+February 0986 served as Singapore's Minister of State for Defence and Minister of State for Trade and Industry. 1February 1986 to1February 1986 as Acting Minister of the Ministry of Trade and Industry; From June 1 10, he was elected as a member of the Executive Committee of the People's Action Party; /kloc-Minister of Trade and Industry since February. 1September, 988, was appointed as the second minister of defense. 1990165438+1October 27th served as deputy prime minister and minister of trade and industry, and later served as deputy prime minister, responsible for supervising the Ministry of trade and industry. From1July 19941-1July 3, 19951,he was also responsible for supervising the Ministry of National Defense. 1997 65438+/kloc-0 was re-elected as the deputy prime minister (prime minister's office) on October 25th, and became the chairman of the Monetary Authority in the following year (5438+ 10). 2001165438+1October 23rd concurrently served as the Minister of Finance.
Lee Hsien Loong has been married twice, with 1 woman and 3 men.
1978, Lee Hsien Loong married a Malaysian girl named Huang. They met at Cambridge University and fell in love at first sight. At that time, Huang was studying medicine at Gordon College. 1982, Huang gave birth to his second child, a boy-Li, but the child was born with albinism and his vision was impaired. Three weeks after giving birth, Huang died of a heart attack. She left her daughter, who was only 19 months old, and her son, Li, who was only three weeks old.
He once said at the funeral of his dead wife, "She is my wife, my lover, my partner and my confidant. She loves me, cherishes me, respects me and comforts me ... and I try to treat her in the same way. Now, death does us part. We must all learn to live without her. "
1985 married his current wife Jing He. He is currently the controlling director of Temasek, a government investment company wholly owned by Singapore's Ministry of Finance, while his younger brother Li Xianyang is the president of Singapore Telecom, the largest state-owned enterprise in Singapore. As the Li family holds many important positions in Singapore's top management, they often hear criticism of nepotism, but those who publicly accuse them are often accused.
1992, Lee Hsien Loong was diagnosed as lymphoma.
During his time in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, where he was struggling with illness, he had a different view of life: "You learn to accept the limits of your own abilities. You must also accept that some things are unpredictable or uncontrollable. After accepting it, continue to live your life. " Because of his physical condition, Lee Hsien Loong told himself to maintain a moderate pace of work every day.
He gets up at 7 o'clock every morning, reads emails and watches online news before breakfast. Then, do 45 minutes of exercise, take a shower and change clothes, and then go out to work.
If there is no need to attend any activities in the morning, Lee Hsien Loong will go to the HKMA around 1 1 in the morning. Unless he wants to eat or take part in some activities, he must go home for dinner at 7 o'clock every night. Then, continue to work: reply to emails, read newspapers or prepare speeches.
He said: "I try not to overwork myself and exceed my physical limit, so I take a rest for about 60 minutes every afternoon to calm myself down and settle down."
When asked if he is expected to become prime minister next year, can his physical strength "support" a larger workload?
Lee Hsien Loong said: "Cancer has never affected my physical strength. However, when a person gets older, the reaction will naturally not be better than when he was young, but I am confident that I will be able to cope. "