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The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, gave field guidance to the construction projects for the regional development policy in Ragwon County of South Hamgyong Province on July 3.

He was accompanied by leading officials of the Central Committee of the WPK and the Ministry of the National Defence and officials of the designing organs.

This year, modern regional-industry factories, an advanced public health facility and a multi-functional leisure complex, which will contribute to the development of the regional economy and the promotion of the inhabitants' health and their material and cultural life, are being built in Ragwon County, which is undergoing a radical change into the fairyland like its name along with the new era of regional change opened up by the Party, under the third year's plan for implementing the regional development policy.

The construction of regional-industry factories, hospital and leisure complex in Ragwon County is now progressing at 67.5 percent, 47 percent and 54 percent of the total construction projects respectively, thanks to the soldier-builders who are leaving traces of worthwhile creation and feats day by day to uphold the cherished desire of the Party Central Committee with honourable fruits of patriotic devotion and efforts.

First, Comrade Kim Jong Un gave field guidance at the construction sites of regional-industry factories in Sepho-ri, Ragwon County.

He was greeted on the spot by Ri Jong Nam, chief secretary of the South Hamgyong Provincial Committee of the WPK, and commanding officers of the construction units involved in the construction projects for the regional development policy in Ragwon County.

He went round foodstuff factory, daily necessities factory and garment factory under construction to learn in detail about the construction.

Praising the fact that the quality of construction for all the architectural spaces and elements is being ensured on a high level, he said with great satisfaction that the specialization and technical equipment level of construction units have been certainly improved to a higher stage than last year and the environment around the construction site has been arranged in a clean way.

Saying that the construction quality and speed have been improved in the overall construction projects for the regional development policy as a result of the sustained efforts made to increase the proportion of mechanization in construction and strengthen the ranks of skilled workers, Comrade Kim Jong Un stressed the need to continue to reinforce construction equipment and, at the same time, make effective judgment on technical skill rating for the builders and properly evaluate according to it.

Enjoying a bird's-eye view of the area of Sepho-ri showing the traction and vitality of the Party's regional development policy, he said with pleasure that this was a shabby place when he made up his mind to build the Ragwon County Offshore Farm but there sprang up an advanced offshore farm and an ideal modern fishing village. He added that the construction of modern regional-industry factories and a greenhouse farm is turning the area into an industrial zone.

Acquainting himself with the operation of the offshore farm in the county, he said that since a good asset has been provided to lay foundations for the improved material and cultural life of its residents and independent economic development, the county Party committee and the county people's committee should hold fast to the main link and carry out all the tasks in a responsible manner and thus turn the county into a place good to live in with its own characteristics as a coastal area while creating and leading the civilization in the new era. He advanced detailed tasks and ways to do so.

He also called for making the struggle for the implementation of the Party's regional development policy an important political occasion for cultivating the working spirit and voluntary revolutionary consciousness of all the residents who are determined to carve out their future by themselves.

He then looked round the hospital and leisure complex being built in the township of Ragwon County.

Learning about the construction, he highly praised the soldier-builders for thoroughly ensuring the quality of construction, being aware that every structure will be associated with the leadership feats of the Party and conscience of the service personnel.

Although structures have the same purposes, their characteristics should be preserved according to their locations--mountainous, coastal and flat areas--with new things applied steadily and they should harmonize with surrounding natural landscape, he said, adding that this is an important requirement of the Party's regional construction policy. And he stressed that the whole construction sector should have a proper understanding of this and create a new standard and a new record every year and steadily renew them.

Since new hospitals, leisure complexes and regional-industry factories have to be built in 20 cities and counties every year, it is needed to supply sufficient material and technical means for designing and building and steadily develop the builders' activeness and creativity so that all the structures can be successfully built to fully embody the Party's idea on architectural aesthetics and meet the architectural engineering requirements, he said.

Saying that the important significance of construction work is being more highlighted in bringing all-people struggle for the overall development of socialism to a steady upsurge at present, he unveiled a plan to further accelerate the regional transformation by expanding and deepening the regional development policy in a gigantic way in the future.

The epoch-making changes in local areas at which even we admire are historic miracles that can be created only by our army, he said, adding that the entire Party, the whole country and all the people should give full play to the spirit of assisting the army with sincerity.

He called upon construction units at all levels to put constant efforts into the political and ideological education so as to firmly prepare all the soldier-builders to be staunch defenders and implementers of the Party's policies and make them fully display their excellent political awareness and morality and patriotism in the fields of socialist construction.

He clarified the important tasks arising in the completion of the construction and the operation of objects, including the issue of strictly meeting the requirements of the method of construction at the finishing work and intensifying supervision, the issue of conducting the designs for afforestation well and giving precedence to the afforestation and greening in time, the issue of building up the county's own construction forces and directing primary efforts to improving urban management including the provision of domestic water for inhabitants and the removal of sewage, the issue of preparing the ranks of medical workers to run modern hospitals without any deviation, the issue of taking responsible measures for the supply of raw materials to regional-industry factories and the issue of paying deeper attention to the living conditions of soldier-builders.

He expressed expectation and belief that all the soldier-builders involved in the construction projects for the regional development policy would invariably remain faithful to their honourable duty and vanguard role, with the awareness that they are the core and engine leading the comprehensive development of socialism, and thus glorify the first year of implementing the decisions of the Ninth Congress of the WPK as a year of proud victory in which regional areas are making another leap forward in their transformation.

Encouraged by the field guidance and the greatest trust of Comrade Kim Jong Un, all the soldier-builders pledged to uphold the Party's policy on regional development with good results at the level required by the new era of comprehensive development.