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The DPRK is witnessing a new history of overall national prosperity in which the capital and provinces and urban and rural areas change all together.

Lots of creations have appeared across the country, including the new modern streets heralding an era of socialist cultural efflorescence, the Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area, large-scale greenhouse farms with intensive, optimized and intelligent production processes and ideal socialist villages.

This is not all.

Thanks to the Regional Development 20×10 Policy of the Workers’ Party of Korea, regional-industry factories, public health facilities and leisure complexes were built in different cities and counties in a matter of two years and the projects for the regional development policy for this year are being pushed as planned.

The substantial and simultaneous development of the provinces—this is the essence of the regional development policy in the new era epitomizing the WPK’s strategy for state building.

It is not an easy job to eliminate the differences between urban and rural areas that have been handed down historically and to press on with the regional transformation which had long been pictured only as an ideal.

In addition, there exist subjective and objective factors hindering the country’s advance, and there are enormous tasks to be tackled for boosting national power, defending national interests and enhancing national prestige.

However, after making a bold revolutionary decision to eliminate the backwardness and laggardness of the regions, the Party adopted and set forth and has expanded and intensified the regional development policy in the new era while dynamically leading the struggle to implement it.

The policy reflects the Party’s state building plan for achieving the overall prosperity and growth of the state by consolidating the foundations and potentials of the regions in every way and radically improving the basic material and cultural living standards of the regional people.

The essence of the regional development policy in the new era is to make everyone who is born on this land equally enjoy an affluent and civilized life under the socialist policy of the state wherever they live, irrespective of the capital or the provinces and cities or remote mountain villages. In other words, it is to make the regional people not only enjoy the same material life just like the citizens of the capital but also live in good health and free from all sorts of worries in a cultured and hygienic environment like the capital.

To this end, the Party adopted the Regional Development 20×10 Policy that is unprecedented since the founding of the DPRK and expanded and deepened it into a comprehensive one that covers light industry, public health, science and education and has taken a series of strong measures to implement it.

As a result, the mountainous counties, which lagged behind in the past, are now mass-producing quality products for the residents, superb fishing villages envied even by the citizens of the capital have appeared and ideal modern rural dwelling houses are provided to the regional people free of charge.

The Party is working hard to realize even one more desire of the regional people, not content with the successes achieved.

At the 13th Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Party Central Committee, it set forth a grand plan to transform the newly organized or the most backward farms among those on the reclaimed tidal flats on the west coast of Korea into modern and civilized ones symbolizing the new transformation of rural development, as well as a plan to additionally form another new front for the transformation of the coal mining areas.

The future of the country which will be filled with the people's happy laughter is being brought earlier under the leadership of the Party which regards the people-first principle as its basic political idea and whose definite trait is to selflessly and devotedly serve the people.