Premier Pak Thae Song Inspects Samjiyon Mountain Tourism Zone Construction and Factories and Enterprises in Hamhung City On-Site

Comrade Pak Thae Song, Member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and Premier of the Cabinet of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, made a field survey of the Samjiyon Mountain Tourism Zone construction and the factories and enterprises in Hamhung City.

While looking round various projects of the Samjiyon Mountain Tourism Zone, which is being grandly built in line with the far-reaching plan and intention of our Party for promoting the people's well-being, the Premier concretely learned about the actual state of construction and guided a review meeting.

At the meeting, the Premier said that the success or failure in implementing the Party's policies depends on the strong organizational ability and executive power of officials, and pointed out that the planned projects should be successfully completed by making the most effective use of the construction period, while simultaneously promoting the preparation for operation and service, and that the relevant units should ensure the needed equipment and materials with top priority.

Visiting the Ryongsong Machine Complex, Comrade Pak Thae Song encouraged the working class here who are creating innovations in the struggle to implement the decisions of the Plenary Meeting of the Party Central Committee, and stressed that the production of various essential equipment for many sectors of the people's economy and the second-stage reconstruction and modernization project should be carried out in a three-dimensional way to continuously expand the successes.

Also, while looking round the Hungnam Fertilizer Complex, he mentioned that the intensive overhaul of various production processes should be completed ahead of schedule with quality, fertilizer production should be normalized, and the work to accelerate the technical renovation of irrational elements should be pushed forward in a planned way.

Learning about the production situation at the Hungnam Pharmaceutical Factory, he said that the factory officials should bear in mind that the development of science and technology is precisely the growth of production, thoroughly solve the arising problems with the power of science and technology, and unconditionally carry out this year's medicine production plan by each index.

At the consultative meetings held on the spot, the issues of the relevant units smoothly ensuring the materials needed for the second-stage reconstruction and modernization project of the Ryongsong Machine Complex, and the issues arising in stably and continuously increasing fertilizer production and vitalizing medicine production were discussed and measures were taken.

(Korean Central News Agency)

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News of Provincial Party Committees That Have Turned Out for Implementing Party Decisions

Powerful Guidance Forces Dispatched to Major Construction Sites

From the South Hamgyong Provincial Party Committee

The South Hamgyong Provincial Party Committee is dispatching powerful guidance forces to major construction sites so that the creative struggle to adorn this year, the first year of the implementation of the new five-year plan, with proud labour achievements is waged more audaciously.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said as follows:

“All Party organizations should control and supervise so that the work of the relevant sectors and units is carried out in line with the Party's ideas and intentions and the Party's policy demands, and take the necessary measures in time.”

The provincial Party committee is firmly holding Party guidance over the construction of the Riwon County Offshore Aquaculture Works, the construction of the Rakwon-ri Greenhouse Branch, the construction of 1 000 flats in Hamhung City, and the second-stage reconstruction and modernization project of the Ryongsong Machine Complex, and is directing main efforts to ensuring that the planned construction tasks are carried out without fail.

The responsible official of the provincial Party committee who went to the construction site of the Riwon County Offshore Aquaculture Works concretely learned about the construction situation on the spot, stressed the need to firmly put political work ahead, and solved the problems arising in qualitatively accelerating the construction, thereby redoubling the fighting spirit of the builders.

The provincial Party officials dispatched to the construction site of the Rakwon-ri Greenhouse Branch are drawing up concrete countermeasures based on the analysis of the performance of the construction plan by each schedule, and are innovatively carrying out the work for their realization. At the same time, they are actively pushing and leading the work of the officials of the relevant units.

The provincial Party officials who went to the construction site of 1 000 flats in Hamhung City and the second-stage reconstruction and modernization site of the Ryongsong Machine Complex are going deep among the masses, launching an offensive of ideological work in a penetrating way, and with skilful work development ability, practical examples and enterprising work style, they are filling every construction site with the spirit of new innovation, bold creation and continuous advance.

The provincial Party committee is regularly reviewing the work of the leading officials on various occasions, generalizing positive examples, and continuously awakening and inspiring them.

Special Correspondent Kim Kyong Chol

Deepening Organizational and Political Work for Implementing the Party's Policy on Agricultural Machinery Revolution

From the South Hwanghae Provincial Party Committee

The South Hwanghae Provincial Party Committee is deepening the organizational and political work for implementing the Party's policy on agricultural machinery revolution. After already sending high-powered tractors, comprehensive rice harvesters and nutritious rice transplanters to rural areas by giving full play to the revolutionary enthusiasm of the officials and workers of the relevant units, it has made good results by vigorously waging the struggle for the cities and counties to produce small-scale soil management machines by themselves.

On this basis, the provincial Party committee, having set a higher goal for raising the proportion of mechanization in agricultural work, is providing good policy guidance so that the provincial rural economy committee is aware of the importance of its assigned task and brings about innovations in its work. Along with strengthening the role of the relevant departments, it is making the city and county Party committees hold fast to this work as important in their guidance.

The provincial Party committee officials who went to the Haeju Agricultural Machinery Factory and the cities and counties are powerfully arousing the masses to the struggle to open the ideological breakthrough and produce more agricultural machines. Encouraged by this, the officials, workers and technicians of the Haeju Agricultural Machinery Factory actively introduced valuable technical innovation proposals and produced hundreds of wheat and barley seeders. The city and county agricultural machinery workshops are also achieving results in the production of connected agricultural machines while accelerating the modernization of equipment.

The provincial Party committee is also actively pushing forward the work to make the Ongjin County Agricultural Machinery Workshop a provincial model unit and have its experience learned in all regions.

The organizational and political work of the provincial Party committee to decisively raise the proportion of mechanization in agricultural work and achieve a new advance in agricultural production is being further strengthened.

Special Correspondent Yun Yong Ho

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With the Struggle That Folds Time

◇ The flame of miraculous increased production kindled by the working class of Sangwon and Chonsong is spreading vigorously to worksites across the country.

Not long ago, an official of the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang Textile Mill whom we met said as follows:

“Our factory has produced over 230 annual-plan fulfilers and over 10 two-year-plan fulfilers so far this year. But this figure is being renewed every day.”

This is not only this factory. Every worksite on this land is pulsating with the breath of new innovation and creation.

Yes. To fill today's each and every day for the implementation of the new five-year plan set forth by the Party Congress with proud labour achievements is the unanimous conviction and will of all officials, Party members and workers across the country.

◇ Continuously creating miracles and innovations with the bold struggle that folds time is the peculiar fighting disposition and creative trait of our people.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said as follows:

“Let us all fight with redoubled courage and confidence, cherishing brave spirit and justifiable self-confidence, to bring about greater victory and glory through more gigantic struggle and new miracle creation.”

Every page of the history of our-style socialist construction is engraved with countless miracles and transformations created at extraordinary speed that astonished the world.

In particular, the amazing changes of today, when completion is declared in the very year of groundbreaking, clearly prove the extraordinary creative spirit and strong practical ability of our people who advance the future and bloom the Party's plan into brilliant reality.

The reality of today, which calls for reliably opening the upsurge of comprehensive national development, demands that we all take bigger and more vigorous steps in the march of transformation at the amazing creation speed that folds time.

About 120 days remain until the end of this meaningful year.

All officials, Party members and workers should ceaselessly renew the speed of advance with the excited fighting spirit and high degree of exertion and reliably open a breakthrough for the new five-year plan in this meaningful year.

◇ Miracles and innovations that fold time are ensured by the extraordinary creative spirit that constantly aims at the new, the boldness to challenge limits, and the redoubled exertion that regards one day as ten or a hundred days.

All officials, Party members and workers must run and run again with the patriotic enthusiasm to connect the present days with miracles and innovations, with the ambitious determination to catch up with the ten or hundred steps taken by others in one step, with the strong spirit of self-sacrifice to take on two or three persons' workload by oneself, and with the creative trait of painfully exploring and practising by splitting the flowing time into minutes and seconds.

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The Flame of Increased Production Burns Fiercely at the Leading Fertilizer Production Base

Namhung Youth Chemical Complex Records an Average Daily Fertilizer Production Rate of 103%

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said as follows:

“All sectors and all units of the people's economy should search for and mobilize all reserves and possibilities without fail, actively wage the technical innovation movement and socialist emulation drive, and bring about a production upsurge.”

Upholding the spirit of the 2nd Plenary Meeting of the 9th Central Committee of the Party, the officials and working class of the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex are bringing about a production upsurge.

They, holding fast to the precedence of science and technology and the management of equipment as the firm way of increased production, are recording an average daily production rate of 103% while fiercely kindling the flame of the mass technical innovation movement.

The complex is actively putting forward the exemplary units and employees in the development and introduction of new technology and the management of equipment, thus raising the drumbeat of increased fertilizer production. It is regularly organizing exhibitions and prize contests so that the masses actively put forward ideas and discoveries that can increase fertilizer production and the equipment operation rate, and substantially operating the sci-tech dissemination room and field technical study, thereby heightening the mass technical innovation atmosphere. At the same time, it is securing spare parts in advance and raising the role of the equipment inspection committee to ensure the maximum equipment operation rate.

Amidst this, substantial progress is being made in the production units.

The workers and technicians of the moulding workshop achieved results in the work to extend the operating time of the moulding machines by combining their technology and experience and making painstaking efforts.

The workers and technicians of the No.1 and No.2 compressor workshops put forward and implemented creative ideas to raise the equipment operation rate and save materials, contributing to the increase of fertilizer production. The workers and technicians of the water supply workshop vigorously waged technical innovation and made progress in the work to raise the cooling efficiency.

Several other units, including the humic acid workshop, the raw material workshop, the gas purification workshop and the ammonia workshop, also achieved a series of results in the work to improve the performance of equipment and raise productivity.

Now, the officials and working class of the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex are redoubling their will to satisfactorily send the fertilizer needed on the socialist agricultural front and are kindling the flame of the mass technical innovation movement even more fiercely.

Text and photos: Field Reporting Team

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Coal Miners of Kujang Create New Records in Succession

The No.2 Coal Mining Company of the 10th Pit of the Ryongdung Coal Mine and the Kim Kwang Chol Youth Shock Brigade Continue to Innovate and Advance with the Momentum of Having Completed the Annual Coal Production Plan and the Three-Year Tunnelling Plan Ahead of Schedule

Upholding the spirit of the 2nd Plenary Meeting of the 9th Central Committee of the Party, the coal miners and shock brigade members of the No.2 Coal Mining Company of the 10th Pit of the Ryongdung Coal Mine and the Kim Kwang Chol Youth Shock Brigade, who completed the annual coal production plan and the three-year tunnelling plan on the 11th by continuously setting new goals and waging a bold labour struggle, are further accelerating the struggle for increased production with high confidence.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said as follows:

“All Party members and workers are now actively turning out for the struggle to build a powerful socialist country, cherishing absolute trust in the Party and burning patriotic enthusiasm, and filled with firm confidence in the victory of the revolution.”

The No.2 Coal Mining Company of the 10th Pit has set the new goal of carrying out the coal production plan for one year and six months this year and is displaying high the spirit of continuous innovation and continuous advance.

The junior officials of the company, by taking the lead in difficult and hard work and opening the path of increased production, find out all the positive deeds displayed among the coal miners and record them in the “Loyalty Increased Production Struggle Diary”, and strengthen the education work through it, thereby boosting the fighting enthusiasm of the masses.

The coal miners of the company, with the single desire to produce even one more tonne of coal and add light and heat to the advancing fatherland, are actively waging various mass movements such as helping the next shift and adding one more coal car, and are fiercely carrying out the socialist emulation among squads. They are making a daily review of conscience before the emulation chart posted at the coal face, constantly challenging new standards and new records, and performing the feat of far exceeding the daily plan.

The flame of new innovation and creation is also burning fiercely at the Kim Kwang Chol Youth Shock Brigade.

Measuring themselves against the increased production figures recorded by the So Un Chol Coal Mining Company of Chonsong, they have further hardened their will to glorify every moment of their lives so that they can proudly call themselves patriotic coal miners who know how to truly repay the Party's trust and love, and are struggling to surely carry out the four-year tunnelling plan by the end of this year.

At the shock brigade, they are conducting political work in various fresh forms and methods, such as conducting education work with materials conveying the great benevolence bestowed on the shock brigade by the respected father Marshal during the daily morning reading time and work breaks, thereby redoubling the revolutionary, struggle and patriotic enthusiasm of the masses.

Meanwhile, taking the review of tunnelling achievements as an occasion, they are organizing meetings to congratulate the innovators and posting materials and photos of exemplary shock brigade members in the performance of the plan on the honour board, thus continuously heightening the masses' enthusiasm for increased production. The shock brigade members are concentrating on raising the tunnelling speed and vigorously waging the technical innovation movement, introducing continuous drilling and continuous blasting.

Under the guidance of the Party organization, the officials of the coal mine are actively pushing the No.2 Coal Mining Company of the 10th Pit and the Kim Kwang Chol Youth Shock Brigade to continue to run vigorously in the vanguard of innovation, so that the heightened enthusiasm of the coal miners and shock brigade members leads to high results.

Staff Reporter Jong Kyong Chol

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Preparatory Work for Coal Mine Village and Coal Mine City Construction Promoted in All Aspects

From the Central Command for Coal Mine Village Construction

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said as follows:

“No matter what work we do, we must accurately grasp what the Party Central Committee wishes and intends, and based on that, design the work and consistently maintain the methodology of finding solutions to problems, and exert maximum efforts to perfectly implement the Party's decisions without the slightest discount or deviation.”

The Central Command for Coal Mine Village Construction, upholding the decision of the 2nd Plenary Meeting of the 9th Central Committee of the Party to promote the coal industry and modernly transform the coal mine villages across the country, is vigorously promoting the preparatory work for coal mine village and coal mine city construction in all aspects.

The command is waging the organizational and political work in an attacking manner so that all officials, deeply cherishing the Party's trust that has entrusted them with the heavy task of leading and pushing forward the work to completely renew and transform the coal mine areas across the country, display high responsibility in their assigned work.

The officials are substantially organizing and commanding the preparatory work to modernly transform the coal mine villages, and are displaying an enterprising work style and manner with the single desire to achieve fruitful results in next year's construction.

They are steadily pushing forward the work to excellently complete the architectural design, which is the preceding process and blueprint of construction, as soon as possible. In contact with the State General Design Bureau, they are concretely grasping the state of preparation of the layout plan and design plan every day and taking timely measures for the arising problems. Amidst this, the preparation of the layout plan is now entering the final stage, and the preparation of the design plan is being pushed forward in earnest.

The operation for ensuring the equipment, materials and transport needed for construction is also being carried out meticulously.

While strengthening consultation with various provinces and central agencies, they are exploring rational guarantee plans based on the concrete understanding of the production capacity of equipment and building material production units and the railway transport capacity of the coal mine village construction areas.

The command is bringing the control and command work close to the field in line with the realistic conditions in which the preparatory work for modern and cultured coal mine village and coal mine city construction is deepening in all aspects.

The officials who went down to the coal mine villages are responsibly guiding the construction preparatory work by combining their creative wisdom with the officials of the relevant areas and units.

In particular, upholding the noble intention of the respected General Secretary who puts the interests and convenience of the people first and above all, they are directing great efforts to the work to ensure that the residents who are relocated from the coal mine village construction areas do not suffer inconveniences in their living during the construction period.

The officials are methodically pushing forward the work to provide accommodation for the residents of several coal mine villages on the principle of ensuring their convenience to the maximum. At the same time, they are concretely learning about the problems that may arise in ensuring food and fuel, education and childcare for students and children, and the supply of dairy products, and are taking corresponding measures.

Staff Reporter