The noble sense of mission, far-reaching ideal and stubborn practical ability of the Workers’ Party of Korea, which regards it as its main focus to originate everything in its revolutionary guidance to absolutely defending the people’s rights and interests and steadily develop in depth the policy for their well-being, strongly promote the comprehensive prosperity and development of the DPRK, unfolding in succession the blueprints of transformation most desired and welcomed by the people.
At a time when the modern rural housing construction is going on in a massive way to remove the countryside’s centuries-old backwardness on a nationwide scale and the ten-year revolution was launched in real earnest to rebuild the regional economy on a completely new and advanced basis, under the WPK’s grand regional development strategy, the Party Central Committee made an another crucial decision and entered into the preparations for adopting an eventful policy decision on carrying out the historic task of successfully building advanced public health facilities, sci-tech dissemination centers and grain management facilities simultaneously in cities and counties across the country.
General Secretary Kim Jong Un on August 31 convened and guided a consultative meeting for the regional development project as part of the preparations for adopting a new important decision to hasten the epochal development and comprehensive prosperity of regions as a Party policy.
Present at the meeting were Presidium members Kim Tok Hun and Jo Yong Won and relevant members of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, chief secretaries of the provincial party committees, commanding officers of the services and corps of the Korean People’s Army which dispatched their units to the regional construction in different areas, and officials in the field of design.
Deeply analyzing the significance and importance of the construction of health facilities, sci-tech dissemination centers, and grain management facilities in cities and counties that arise as a more essential requirement in accelerating the development of the Korean revolution and the historic cause of regional rejuvenation at present, the General Secretary said that to thoroughly implement the Party’s regional development strategy is not merely a practical undertaking for building factories and structures but an important political work for giving full play to the advantages of our state system based on the people-first principle to implant the truth and invincibility of the socialist cause deep in the people and ensure the steady succession to the socialist cause.
In recent years the WPK set forth a policy on building light industry factories in local areas to develop cities and counties, regional bases, substantially, materially, and in a planned way and has pushed ahead with its implementation in every way, but this alone is not enough to provide the regional people across the country with a sustained and improved material and cultural life, he said.
The newly-added three-point construction task is in full accord with the regional construction policy of the WPK and its policy of prioritizing science and technology and people-oriented policies and it is essential for implementing the programme of state construction to achieve the balanced and simultaneous development of the whole country and, accordingly, it is an urgent task to carry it into practice, he said. He reaffirmed that now is the best time for the start of this important revolutionary work since KPA units have been deployed in every province, city, and county and a national material supply and command system established in a well-regulated way to implement the Regional Development 20×10 Policy.
The Party’s policy for regional development in the new era should not be confined to the construction of light industry factories but should be a comprehensive policy dealing with public health, science, and education, and only then, it can make a genuine contribution to the improvement of regional people’s material and cultural life and radically improve the efficiency of regional development, he said, clarifying all the principles to be adhered to in building advanced city and county hospitals, scientific and technological dissemination bases and grain management facilities.
He said that it is his first cherished desire to build city and county hospitals which will greatly contribute to improving the regional health situation, relatively inferior, and promoting the life and security and health of local people, adding that it would be good to add the construction of modern health facilities to the Regional Development 20×10 Policy and complete their construction in the set year without fail for the people in different local areas, though it is very difficult to do, and that this will be regarded as the first task the Korean revolution and the times entrust the Party and the government.
Science and technology dissemination centers, too, should be completed in a big way wonderfully to provide the working people from all walks of life in local areas with enough conditions for contributing to the development of the state by dint of technology and knowledge and also comprehensive and integrated rice-processing facilities be built to further improve the people’s diet, he stressed.
He said that it is important for the provincial, city and county Party committees and people’s committees to find out their definite shares of work, including preparations for the operation of newly-to-be-built objects, and launch effective work for their realization, more deeply mindful that they are responsible for the implementation of the regional development policy.
The meeting, on the basis of in-depth study of the key issues guaranteeing the feasibility of the three-point construction essential for the regional development, discussed such detailed practical measures as the reinforcement of KPA units at all levels involved in the regional construction and the establishment of a central policy guidance system over the construction sector.
Noting that these gigantic projects launched by the WPK are an important undertaking based on scientific calculation and the Party Central Committee requires that they should be carried out on the highest level so that the local people can benefit from them even after 100 years, Kim Jong Un expressed belief that the more our Party, government and army shoulder heavy burden, the faster the new era of regional transformation change will be brought and the further the welfare of people across the country will be promoted.
Saying that great years are being witnessed when a grand cause of regional transformation, envisaged as an ideal for nearly 80 years, is realized during the ten-year revolution, he called upon all officials to conduct their work responsibly with their strong will and firm confidence to surely bring about a new appearance in which the whole country has been changed and a radical turn has taken place in the life of the regional people as required by the Party’s policy of regional development.
He said that the historic cause of regional development is a revolutionary undertaking to be proud of, though it needs much effort, and that when new edifices symbolic of the people’s happiness and regional development have appeared in 20 cities and counties every year and the whole country is seething with the song of radical changes, we will feel more proud of the dynamic pace of today which we have taken with readiness for courageous struggle and fortitude.
The precious guidelines, which stress our sacred and just cause of supporting the people as heaven and indicate the ways for comprehensively and rapidly developing the whole country as befitting the status and position of a powerful country while firmly maintaining the Korean-style view on development and mode of development, redoubled the noble sense of mission and spirit of exertion of all the participants in the meeting.
The new direction of struggle, which is of great significance in accelerating the historic cause of regional rejuvenation, is the responsible option and worthwhile revolutionary work of the WPK which regards it as its revolutionary climate and supreme desire to courageously shoulder all the burdens for realizing the people’s cherished wishes and bringing about the future full of happiness.
All the participants raised their enthusiastic applause, extending the highest tribute to Kim Jong Un who is dynamically ushering in a new era of socialist civilization and prosperity while arousing all our servicepersons and civilians to the great struggle with his ardent spirit of serving the country and the people and sacred step of the most staunch and active exploration.
The consultative meeting, held under the guidance of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, served as a political occasion of weighty significance in providing a practical guarantee for the expanded and deepened regional development policy of the WPK. The grand ideal and strong might of self-reliance of the WPK translating the people’s dreams and wishes into brilliant reality are making a series of remarkable changes and eye-opening efflorescence in all aspects of socialist construction, looking forward to the rosy future.
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