The ground level enhancement (GLE) from the solar proton flare of 29, Sept., 1989 is recorded by the world wide network of the neutron monitors and μ-meson telescopes. This GLEis the greatest event since the event on 23 Feb. 1956. The features of the world wide GLEincluding the intensity time profiles, the spectrum, the anisotropy and the geographical distribution etc. are studied in this paper. And the influences of the GLEon the earth's environment are described briefly in this paper.