Missing the Model

It was a tragedy yesterday for the Taiwanese hearing the death of former premier Sun Yun-suan(孫運璿, 1913-2006, at the left side of the picture above). He gave an impetus to the Taiwanese economy and was being a successor of Chiang Ching-kuo(蔣經國, at the right side of the picture above).He was effusion of blood in the brain in 1984 with the end of political way and died in the Taipei Veterans General Hospital in 0:33 2/15/06 by erupting at the same time with Sepsis and shock.

I think his death to symbolize that the falling of a kind legend of a perfect bureaucrat. In the biography of Sun Yun-suan, we can notice a uncommon attitude in work and life in this modern, to be a leader he listen to anyone’s speech with patience, remembered anyone’s name to let them to be aware that he was important, shouldered the mistakes made by subordinates. The most important thing that he was a bureaucrat in 50 years with clean-handed, exaggeratedly when he was no longer hold the post of the premier in 1984, he had no money to purchase a house for his family, I believed he was the one in a thousand politician and statesman.

When we reviewed the promotion of Taiwanese economy, we cannot forget Mr. Sun. In 1945, he came to Taiwan to reinstate the facilities of electric power from the Japanese to set the basement of the raising ability of economic development. In 1967, he was the minister of Communications and planed some significant constructions to encourage the Taiwan to grow to be a modern country, especially in the Hsinchu Science Park to set up the foundation of the high-tech industry.

I think it was a perfect sentence for him that “Sun Yun-suan was an extraordinary model” by former premier Hau Pei-tsun(郝柏村).

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