A series of transformative structures symbolizing the new era of national rejuvenation is being created across the DPRK thanks to the outstanding idea and seasoned leadership of the Workers’ Party of Korea which leads the Korean revolution only to victory under the uplifted banner of the people-first principle. The first-year task of the WPK’s Regional Development 20×10 Policy for the rapid improvement of the regional people’s material and cultural living standards has been carried out and, thereby, scores of modern regional-industry factories have been splendidly built in 20 cities and counties throughout the country.

All the officers and men of the construction regiments who turned out true to the decisions of the 19th Enlarged Meeting of the Political Bureau of the Eighth WPK Central Committee and the order of the Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the WPK performed the distinguished feats of building the Korean-style modern regional-industry factories, which conform to the regional features and in which production has been put on an automated and scientific basis at a high level, in only 290-odd days since the beginning of the regional-industry revolution in the spirit of unconditional execution and with stubborn practical ability peculiar to the revolutionary army.

The birth of the first precious entities of the ten-year drive for creation to be specially recorded in the sacred course of the development of the Juche revolution is the proud fruition of the revolutionary leadership, based on the noble idea of “The people are God” and devoted service for the people, of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who set it as the supreme principle of activities of the Party and the state to promote the people’s wellbeing and realize their ideal. It is also an encouraging event proving that a greatly stirring age when the regions change and prosper has come as a reality.

An inauguration ceremony of the regional-industry factories in Songchon County for the Regional Development 20×10 Policy took place with splendour on December 20.

The venue of the ceremony was full of the boundless pride of the soldier-builders who built the assets of prosperity on the site of glory, where they had a historic ground-breaking ceremony to signal the start of the ten-year revolution, and the deep gratitude and delight of the working people in Songchon County who would enjoy a new civilization and new life of regional transformation under the loving care of the Party.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, attended the inauguration ceremony.

When the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue of the ceremony amid the playing of welcome music, all the participants paid the highest respect to the prominent leader of the revolution and great leader of the people who is ushering in a new era of epochal regional rejuvenation and a glorious heyday of comprehensive national development on this land, as he makes untiring efforts setting it as his lifelong mission to achieve the prosperity of the country and promote the people’s wellbeing.

Present at the ceremony were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and other members of the Party central leadership body, members of the non-permanent committees for promoting the Regional Development 20×10 Policy at all levels, officials and working people in South Phyongan Province and Songchon County and service personnel of the Korean People’s Army involved in the construction.

The national anthem of the DPRK was solemnly played.

Kim Jong Un made an important speech on the inauguration of the regional-industry factories in Songchon County.

Saying that holding an inauguration ceremony of the first fruition after ten months at the historic place where the beginning of the WPK’s ten-year revolution was declared is a significant event of confirming the real intention and prospect of our work, he stated with pride that the erection of new entities in different regions of the country this year, which can be called the start of the ten-year revolution and the epitome for judging its success or failure, gave the people a sure understanding that the regions are undergoing a transformation and made it possible to secure the motive force to promote the regional development policy more scientifically and accurately on the basis of many-sided and rich experience.

He gave a comprehensive and critical analysis and estimation of the causes of failure for the regional-industry policy and the programme for the rural revolution in the past era to achieve due results contrary to the intention to shore up the people’s living and the country’s agriculture in all regions, and of the important issues to be promptly rectified for the final solution of the rural question.

He stressed the need to surely and unconditionally carry on the great age in which 20 cities and counties change every year and make greater and accurate strides for advance while attaching more importance to lessons and prospects than to visible successes. He clarified the matters of principle and important tasks for conducting in a revolutionary way the construction work in the new year in implementing the regional development policy.

The WPK will further expand and intensify the regional development policy and the programme for the rural revolution in the historic new era so that the people can benefit from them even after 100 years, and will be more courageous in splendidly transforming even one more thing in the regions, he said, ardently calling for making courageous efforts to bring earlier the day when the beloved younger generation and the people will enjoy a civilized and rich life in their transformed native lands and prospering localities.

Kim Jong Un cut the inauguration tape amid the stormy cheers of “Hurrah!” raised by all the participants with the ardent reverence for and absolute trust in the great Party Central Committee.

Fireworks were displayed and many balloons soared into the sky over the venue of the ceremony in Songchon writing the first page with pride in the history of regional development in the new era.

With deep emotion, all the participants offered their thanks to the great father of the large socialist family, who set the people-first principle as the eternal political idea and steadfast political mode of the WPK and is devoting himself to the eternal peace and happiness of the people across the country.

Kim Jong Un went round the regional-industry factories in Songchon County together with the participants in the inauguration ceremony.

He went round the rooms for producing cooking oil, soy sauce, bean paste, chestnut jam, bread, drinks and soap, wood processing workteam and other production processes of foodstuff and daily necessities factories to learn in detail about the variety and quality of trial products.

Calling on the regional-industry factories to direct primary efforts to improving the quality of products, he said that they should make the maximum use of modern production processes so as to produce a lot of popular goods and famous commodities with distinctive features of their regions and the goods would be evaluated by the inhabitants in the county.

He called upon the newly-built regional-industry factories to foster and expand the climate of developing competitively, while exchanging experience with each other and learning from others, as regards the problems arising in their management such as production activities, ensuring of quality and training of skilled workers.

Repeatedly stressing that the most important thing in the operation of modern regional-industry factories is the normalization of production and improvement of quality, he said that the county Party committees should take these two issues as important policy tasks and as the work of the Party committees and conduct a thorough review and take measures every month to make sure that the policy on regional development set forth by the Party genuinely contributes to the improvement of the material and cultural life of the regional people and turns into a policy radically improving the efficiency of regional development.

He set forth important tasks arising in the business activities and normalization of production at regional-industry factories, including the issue of increasing the proportion of locally available raw and other materials and home-made equipment, the issue of establishing a strict system of product inspection, the issue of steadily improving the level of modernization of production processes and the issue of thoroughly ensuring convenience and profitability in packing goods.

Noting that it is our Party’s strategy for building the state to consolidate its foundation by strengthening regions and build a higher tower on that and it can be said that every regional-industry factory now under construction epitomizes all our conscience, ideal, strenuous efforts and fighting spirit, he expressed belief that all the officers and men of the construction regiment would continue to fulfill their honourable mission as pioneers of transformation and defenders of happiness for the country and its people in the next year, too, in the spirit and mettle with which they vigorously made the first breakthrough in the 10-year campaign for regional rejuvenation.

Going round the rooms for education in the revolutionary history and rooms dedicated to the histories of the foodstuff, daily necessities and garment factories and their production rooms, the participants in the ceremony including members of the Party central leadership body renewed their firm pledge to single-heartedly and faithfully support the far-reaching plan of the Party Central Committee for regional development, recollecting once again the sacred journey of devotion made by Kim Jong Un for the radical development of regions and the improvement of the material and cultural life of the people across the country.

The inauguration of the regional-industry factories in Songchon County built as the first creation of regional rejuvenation under the energetic guidance of the great Party Central Committee serves as a significant occasion in greatly encouraging the patriotic struggle of the people across the country who are accelerating the historic advance for comprehensive national rejuvenation initiated by the Eighth Party Congress with confidence in the bright prospects of the Juche cause and our future to be more civilized and prosperous.