opinion

Our Party, which has been carrying forward its ruling history for nearly 80 years, really has many appellations and names given by the people and recorded by the times.

“The great Party which knows no satisfaction in the work for the people” is one of the appellations.

It epitomizes the true features of our Party, the one for the people.

In the past, our people have enjoyed a new civilization and lived a blessed life provided by our Party.

The period witnessed the golden age of capital city construction, rural dwelling house construction going on vigorously on a nationwide scale and the implementation of the “Regional Development 20×10 Policy”.

Our Party built 10 000 flats in the Songsin and Sonhwa area as the beginning of the construction of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang and a luxury residential district for the people on the picturesque bank of the Pothong River.

And Rimhung and Jonwi streets sprang up one after another last year.

The changes of rural communities were also amazing.

Modern rural dwelling houses have been built in succession and groundbreaking and inauguration ceremonies of regional-industry factories were held constantly to make the whole country seethe with joy.

However, our Party has designed and brought into reality not only what the people desired but also even what they hardly ever did.

A typical example is the construction of three essential projects added to the regional development policy.

The construction of city and county hospitals is scores of times as laborious as that of houses or industrial buildings, and it requires high construction techniques, expensive materials and a large sum of money. The leisure complexes, whose construction started this year, were a project never previously known in regional construction.

But our Party made the decision without hesitation, the one which had been difficult to make even in the days when things were in abundance, and made blasts for ground breaking.

Our future is so bright and brilliant thanks to the intention of our Party to transform the provinces along with the capital city and not only towns but also the countryside so that all the people can fully enjoy a new, civilized and rich life wherever they live.

Kim Ji Won, section chief of the Academy of Social Sciences