Let Us Further Strengthen Guidance and Assistance to Local Industrial Factories

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said as follows:

«We must powerfully boost the sectors and units directly connected to the people's livelihood and increase production so that more benefits of living are accorded to the people.»

Assisting the local areas by the center and helping local industry by central industry is a consistent policy of our Party.

Holding high the original idea of our Party that the development of local industry is the development of local areas, and the development of local areas is the all-round revitalization and prosperity of the nation, and at a time when the struggle to build up all cities and counties into strategic strongholds of a civilized and powerful socialist country is being vigorously waged, the issue of further strengthening guidance and assistance to local industrial factories becomes an important matter.

In reality, the sound of normalized production resonating highly from the new local industrial factories that have now emerged as the first entity of local revitalization, underscores the importance of active guidance and assistance from the center.

While waging the struggle for the implementation of the local development policy, our Party took revolutionary measures to help local industrial factories, such as establishing a nationwide policy for guaranteeing essential raw materials and sending central instructors, researchers, and senior skilled workers from factories and enterprises in the capital to cities and counties to provide unsparing assistance in technical and skill aspects.

Thanks to the concentrated national concern and central support, the new local industrial factories were able to raise the sound of full operation and full capacity immediately upon starting operation, and have brought about a clear advance, distinct from the previous period, in terms of production output, product variety, and quality up to the present.

Witnessing this reality directly, our people are boosting their confidence and optimism a hundredfold about the more brilliant future, and the new local industrial factories have proudly established themselves as a new axis that visually shows our-style civilization development and transformation.

This serves as a demonstration of the scientific accuracy, correctness, and vitality of our Party's policy of actively assisting local industry, and highlights the Party necessity of further strengthening guidance and assistance to local industrial factories at the present period.

Strengthening guidance and assistance to local industrial factories is an essential issue, even from the perspective of the actual conditions where the struggle to open a new era of all-round prosperity by developing the local areas first is intensifying.

When guidance and assistance to local industrial factories are strengthened, the potential of local industry and the material and technical foundation of the relevant region can be firmly consolidated, and furthermore, the new era of local renaissance can be opened with certainty.

All sectors and units must realize the importance of strengthening guidance and assistance to local industrial factories in more dynamically promoting the revival and development of our country and the improvement of the people's welfare, and must actively step forward to the work for its realization.

Above all, it is important to steadily improve the methods of guiding local industry and substantially conduct the work of continuously increasing investment and support.

Strengthening guidance to the local industry sector and providing unsparing assistance is one of the fundamental ways to enhance the efficiency of local development.

The Cabinet, the Local Industry Department, and other state economic guidance organs must always understand the operational situation of local industrial factories, devise measures to solve arising problems, and raise the requirement so that even minor deviations do not appear in the work of improving product quality. Furthermore, they must strengthen necessary support work according to the characteristics of their respective sectors, so that local industrial factories can preemptively and timely cope with problems that may arise in the management and operation process, such as equipment management and modernization of the production process. Since the masters of local livelihood are, after all, the cities and counties, we must also not miss the issue of preparing conditions and opportunities for them to develop local industry by their own efforts and creatively, according to their actual situation.

Next, it is important for the relevant provincial departments and scientific research institutions to provide active technical assistance.

When central technical assistance follows, local industrial factories can put their management activities on a scientific basis and achieve substantial progress in improving product quality, expanding品种, and reducing costs.

Support must be strengthened to solve scientific and technological problems arising in renewing the production processes of local industrial factories, improving product quality, and improving raw material conditions. Also, efforts must be put into research work to breed and introduce more and faster varieties of Party crops and oil-bearing crops that suit the local weather and climate conditions and can yield high and safe harvests. In particular, if technical assistance is strengthened, such as the work to raise the technical skill level of employees of local industrial factories by talents including researchers from relevant provincial departments and scientific research institutions and technicians from central-level factories and enterprises, local industry can undoubtedly be developed at a high speed.

Since local industry is, as the term implies, industry that develops based on local raw material sources, actively promoting the work of raw material base farming in cities and counties and guaranteeing the necessary conditions for it becomes a key issue in realizing the activation of production in local industrial factories.

The relevant sectors must accurately grasp the situation of raw material base farming being conducted in cities and counties, strengthen the work of summarization, and meticulously organize the work to smoothly guarantee machinery, agricultural chemicals, plastic sheets, etc., in connection with related units. Along with this, they must also actively help the work to firmly consolidate the material and technical foundation of raw material base enterprises in the relevant region.

All sectors of the national economy must deeply engrave in their minds that our Party's state construction strategy is to strengthen the local areas, solidify the foundation, and build a higher tower upon that base, and must further strengthen the support work for local industrial factories.

Correspondent Kim Ju Il

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Annual Plan Fulfilled Ahead of Schedule

The officials and working class of the Odaejin Youth Salt Farm achieved the success of fulfilling the annual salt production plan by August 25.

Setting the goal of glorifying this year, which marks the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Party, with laudable labor achievements, they have boldly waged the increased production struggle and creative struggle since the beginning of the year.

The officials of the salt farm, including Manager Kang Jong Gil, focused efforts on raising the operational rate of water pumping equipment, ensuring that the salt production work teams had no worries about raw materials. The salt production work teams, while raising the proportion of mechanization, vigorously waged increased production competitions, continuously expanding production results.

As production performance rose, the officials innovatively carried out work to further raise the technical skill level of the water pump operators and water management workers. As a result, the salt farm achieved noticeable improvements in the management of evaporation ponds and crystallization ponds according to weather conditions.

Now, the officials and employees here, without complacency over achievements already made, are setting higher goals and waging a vigorous struggle for their fulfillment.

Correspondent

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Pushing Production with Enthusiasm to Greet the 9th Party Congress with Great Labor Achievements

-At the Pyongyang Rayon Factory-

 

 

Photo by Sin Chol

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The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said as follows:

«In everything, the summary evaluation must be fair and the relationship between reward and punishment must be clear.»

This is an incident that occurred at a certain light industry factory. The factory officials intensified operations and command to announce the outline of socialist competition and actively conduct the mass technical innovation movement.

Then one day, an official who had gone to the site captured a serious problem.

Because the evaluation work on the state of technical innovation was uniform, the enthusiasm for competition among the employees was not high.

To be specific, while evaluations were being done on work teams that raised production efficiency through technical renovation of equipment, evaluations were not being properly conducted on the members who played a key role in yielding such results, causing the enthusiasm for technical innovation to decline among some people.

Regarding this, the factory officials reflected on their mistaken work style of having conducted competition summaries and evaluations in an egalitarian manner, with the psychology that if the unit's results improve, wouldn't that much be good for the individual members as well, since everyone works together in one factory, one work team.

Coming to their senses, the officials regarded socialist competition and fair evaluation as an important means of inspiring employees, drew up specific competition items and evaluation细则, and conducted the summarization work significantly.

In this process, the employees' enthusiasm for competition heightened, and noticeable achievements were brought about in production and management activities.

Today, egalitarianism in socialist competition summary and evaluation is an obstacle to innovation.

Then why does egalitarianism occur? It lies in the lack of responsibility of the officials of the relevant unit for the entrusted work, and particularly in working in an unsystematic way without clever methodology to mobilize the strength of the masses and heighten the competition fervor to achieve development.

Officials must accurately establish evaluation criteria for socialist competition and promote political evaluation and material evaluation to maximize the arousal of the masses' patriotic enthusiasm and creative initiative, so that competition contributes to achieving the all-round development of socialist construction.

Correspondent

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News from Correspondents

Reconstruction and Modernization of the Hamhung Farm Machine Connecting Factory Enters Final Stage

In South Hamgyong Province

Holding high the Party's intention to reconstruct and modernize the Hamhung Farm Machine Connecting Factory into a farm machine factory that can represent the eastern region, officials and workers in South Hamgyong Province are powerfully pushing ahead with the construction.

Currently, the construction of over 10 building frames, internal and external plastering, and tiling are being finalized, and in-plant road paving, site leveling, equipment installation, etc., are being comprehensively promoted, with the construction entering its final stage.

Under the guidance of the Provincial Party Committee, officials of Hamhung City set stage-by-stage goals ambitiously and powerfully carried out operations and command to ensure the quality of structures at a high level.

Officials and builders in the city, including the Hamhung City Construction Brigade, preceded site preparation and produced hundreds of thousands of blocks in a short period, thus preparing the guarantee for fully launching the foundation construction. The working class of the Equipment Assembly Complex successfully carried out the installation of crane rails over a several hundred meter section, and the working class of the Hamhung Timber Processing Factory qualitatively produced and guaranteed various building components and fixtures.

Builders who rushed from various districts in the city devoted their patriotic sweat without sparing to each and every creation, such as in-plant road paving, fence construction, and green area creation.

Correspondent Kim Kyong Chol

Deepening Organizational Work for Rice Paddy Fish Farming

In Nampo City

Nampo City is strengthening organizational work to widely develop rice paddy fish farming by learning from the good experience of the rear base of the People's Army units. For this purpose, the city recently meaningfully organized an on-the-spot demonstration in the Posan Farm of Kangso District.

Responsible officials of the city, districts, and counties, agricultural guidance organs, and farm officials participated.

First, a comprehensive lecture was given, analyzing the actual state of rice paddy fish farming at farms and providing answers to problems arising in extensively developing rice paddy fish farming. Then, after watching video materials related to rice paddy fish farming, experience discussions were held realistically. The experience discussions gave participants the confidence that anyone can do rice paddy fish farming anywhere if they set their mind to it and apply themselves. District and county officials and farm managers who participated in the demonstration applied themselves to the work of further vitalizing rice paddy fish farming, which is highly economically effective and good for soil improvement.

The city is summing up the situation of the work to increase the area of rice paddy fish farming and actively solving arising problems through various opportunities, including video conferences, thereby further heightening the enthusiasm of the masses.

Text and photo by correspondent Chon Song Sam

Further Strengthening the Dairy Production Base

In Huichon City

Huichon City continues to put great effort into further strengthening the dairy production base.

The City Party Committee, from the beginning of the year, established active measures to strengthen the dairy production base, including securing goats, reconstructing pastures, and creating grass plots. Responsible officials of the city went hundreds of ri without hesitation to obtain goats of excellent breeds, and took the lead in tackling and solving problems arising in pasture reconstruction. Thus, goat pens, feed processing rooms, feed storage warehouses, and buildings for employees' living were built more splendidly.

In accordance with the increase in the number of goats, the city simultaneously promoted the work of effectively utilizing herbs commonly found on surrounding mountains for treatment and prevention of goat diseases, as well as the work of prospectively and plannedly increasing grass plots. They substantially organized socialist competition according to the actual situation of the relevant unit, boosting the enthusiasm of grazing workers, and also diligently generalized the experience achieved in raising the scientific level of feeding management.

Through the devoted struggle of city officials and workers who faithfully devote their sweat and effort to the path of carrying out the Party's childcare policy, the city secured many more goats and, by raising the operational rate of sufficiently equipped facilities, became able to more smoothly produce and supply dairy products.

Correspondent Ko Chol Myong

Actively Promoting River Improvement

Officials and workers of Pochon County have unanimously stepped forward to the river improvement construction. Currently, embankments stretch neatly along a over 10 km section of the Karim Stream, and bottom digging and the construction of stacking over ten thousand square meters of stone blocks have been conducted.

Under the guidance of the County Party Committee, the county specifically analyzed and summarized the shortcomings revealed in the national land management work in the past period, thoroughly understood the actual condition and dangerous spots of the river, and aroused officials to awakening and exertion. County responsible officials went to their assigned areas and actively pushed the organization of manpower and guarantee of materials arising in the improvement work, including bottom digging, embankment earth filling, and stone block stacking.

As the county-wide operation intensified, the enthusiasm of the masses heightened.

Officials and workers, with fiery patriotic hearts, ensured both the quality and speed of work by process, and vigorously waged the struggle to successfully conclude the assigned construction tasks.

The province and the 216th Division sent heavy machinery and labor to actively assist the construction.

Correspondent Chon Chol Ju

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It Must Become a Firm Guarantee for Training Practical Personnel

On the Process of Executing the Party Policy for Strengthening the Experimental and Practical Training Base in the Education Sector

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said as follows:

«We must renovate educational conditions and environment and raise the material and technical foundation of the education sector to a world standard.»

Holding high the decision of the 11th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Party, the work to further strengthen the experimental and practical training base, which is the foundation for training practical personnel in the education sector, is becoming more active.

The building of the experimental and practical training base, which is one way for the education sector to fulfill its entrusted duty in the new era of all-round national revival, is an important work that must be consistently pursued.

From this standpoint, looking at the process of strengthening the experimental and practical training base underway in various universities, there are noticeable issues.

First, it is important to maintain an ambitious and future-oriented perspective that matches pedagogical requirements and the unit's mission.

Kim Il Sung University set a bold plan to completely renovate the experimental education centers for the faculties of the natural science sector and is persistently pushing it, achieving the success of newly building 7 experimental education centers to be examples for the whole country up to now.

Even better is that the university officials, based on a concrete analysis of student demand by experimental subject, equipped the newly built experimental education centers with modern facilities in a first-class manner.

While newly building the Mechanical Engineering Experimental Education Center, officials of Kim Chaek University of Technology diligently focused on equipping experimental and practical training facilities and fixtures to contribute to the execution of important research tasks. The fact that the activity of research task teams composed of guiding instructors, doctoral students, and students has become more active in the newly built experimental education center shows that the innovative vision and perspective of the university officials are yielding practical benefits.

Had these officials not grandly conducted operations and command from a firm standpoint of guaranteeing both today and tomorrow of educational development, they could not have achieved such results.

On the contrary, in some universities, the tendency to be satisfied with just equipping one or two experimental facilities has not disappeared.

Officials and educators who have genuinely stepped forward for the implementation of our Party's educational revolution policy must think again: Are the experimental and practical training facilities equipped in their unit not becoming just for show or for display?

Next, it is to thoroughly establish a work style of making further progress by one's own efforts, mobilizing the unit's scientific research strength most effectively.

The experience of Pyongyang University of Electrical Engineering, which has built a excellent comprehensive practical training ground and is contributing to enhancing students' creative ability, suggests this.

What the university officials, who decided to build a modern comprehensive practical training ground, emphasized was to actively arouse the creative initiative of students together with instructors and researchers. In other words, it was to firmly transform the process of strengthening the foundation for experimental and practical training into a process of enhancing students' practical ability and strengthening the personnel strength for unit development.

Thus, numerous development teams were organized, with research-capable instructors as responsible persons and composed of students according to their majors, and through their active efforts, the university came to possess a sufficient experimental and practical training base.

Hyesan Medical University and Kanggye Medical University also deepened discussions and competitions by faculty and lecture, improving experimental and practical training conditions and environment so that students can fully acquire clinical practical skills by watching the entire surgical process without entering the hospital operating room.

When officials, based on deep research into their unit's specific characteristics and development prospects, establish firm opinions and scientifically and persistently lead the work for strengthening the experimental and practical training base, they can achieve excellent results according to the Party's intention.

Otherwise, they cannot correctly透视 the unit's potential and will ultimately have no choice but to sit and wait for help from other units. The fact that some universities are still marking time without any noticeable progress also has an important cause in this ideological viewpoint.

This year is an important year that must become a turning point in strengthening the country's educational foundation.

Is it becoming a firm guarantee for training practical personnel?

All educational officials and educators must place themselves before this question and fulfill their entrusted responsibility and duty in strengthening the foundation for enhancing students' practical ability.

Kim Hyok Jun

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National Youth Science and Technology Achievements Exhibition Opens

The National Youth Science and Technology Achievements Exhibition opened on the occasion of Youth Day.

On display at the exhibition are over 1,500 science and technology achievement materials accomplished by youth from various parts of the country, who possess extraordinary creative spirit and patriotic zeal, in the process of actively waging the mass technical innovation movement on all fronts of the increased production struggle for the implementation of the decisions of the 8th Party Congress and Plenary Meetings of the Party Central Committee.

An opening meeting was held at the Science and Technology Hall on the 26th.

Present were Comrade Kim Jong Sun, Department Director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Comrade Kim Song Bin, Chairman of the State Science and Technology Commission, youth league officials, and youth.

Comrade Mun Chol, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League, delivered the opening address.

The speaker said that this exhibition will be an important occasion to double the enthusiasm of the new generation youth to contribute substantially to the fulfillment of the five-year plan for national economic development by bringing out more new technologies, inventions, and creative suggestions with the spirit of active pioneering, sincere exploration, and bold struggle.

He emphasized that all participants should further accelerate the youth science and technology march by sharing and exchanging achievements and experiences gained through the exhibition, broadening their scientific and technological perspective, and heightening competition zeal and struggle zeal, to greet the 9th Party Congress with laudable labor achievements.

After the opening meeting, participants looked around the exhibition hall.

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National Sci-Tech Exhibition in Nano Technology Sector-2025 Closes

The National Sci-Tech Exhibition in the Nano Technology Sector-2025 closed.

This exhibition displayed materials and exhibits showing achievements made in the research process for carrying out the Party policy on establishing the nano industry and enhancing its pivotal role.

Through the exhibition, the significance and importance of nano technology in the country's economic development and improvement of the people's livelihood were further highlighted, and technical exchange and experience exchange were actively conducted.

Proposals and products presented by units including Kim Il Sung University, Kim Chaek University of Technology, the Nano Engineering Branch of the State Academy of Sciences, and the University of Science received excellent evaluations.

A closing ceremony was held at the Central Light Industrial Products Sample Hall on the 26th.

Present were officials from related sectors, exhibiting units, instructors, researchers, etc.

The speaker emphasized that all scientists and technicians should achieve practical results in the work of actively researching and developing new nano materials and widely introducing and generalizing nano technology in various sectors of the national economy.

[Korean Central News Agency]