Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) -- The dear respected Kim Jong Un was present at the national meeting of light industrial workers on Monday and made an important speech.
Kim Jong Un in his speech said that the light industrial front along with the agricultural front are the main fronts on which efforts should be focused in the drive for building an economic power and improving the people's living standard.

He went on:

To rapidly develop the nation's light industry is as worthwhile work not only for improving the people's material and cultural living standards but an important political work for demonstrating the advantages and vitality of the socialist system in the DPRK, consolidating the single-minded unity of the Party and people as firm as a rock and bringing earlier the revolutionary great event of national reunification.

Kim Jong Un set forth main tasks and ways to be held fast to by the field of light industry at present.

He said: It is necessary to make the most effective use of the existing production potential to radically increase the production of consumer goods and push forward the modernization and scientification of light industry and thus put it on the world's advanced level.

The light industry should keep production going at a high rate to massively produce varieties of quality consumer goods.

The industrial establishments in the field of light industry should wage a widespread campaign to improve the quality of consumer goods in order to produce daily necessities favored by people and ones symbolic of their units and impeccable on foreign markets.

In order to solve the issue of raw and other materials for light industry the units tasked to provide funds for the people's living should increase their roles for the present.

A basic way of solving the issue is to locally produce raw and other materials.

The chemical industry has a big role to play for locally producing those materials.

It is very important to develop the local industry for boosting the production of consumer goods.

The field of light industry should regard it as important task to put light industry on a modern and scientific basis and dynamically push forward it at a high level.

The industrial establishments should have scientists and technicians positively involved in production as required by the trend of developing modern light industry so that they may scientifically analyze all the issues arising in producing goods, improving quality, managing equipment and conducting business activities and solve them by dint of science and technology.

It is important to wage the drive for radically increasing the production of consumer goods through a movement involving all masses and the whole society.

It is necessary to boost the production of varieties of quality consumer goods by waging a widespread August 3 Consumer Goods Production Movement as it was done in the 1980s.

If the field of light industry makes rapid progress ahead of other fields, displaying its vitality, and the whole country intensifies the drive for the production of consumer goods, keeping pace with it, the Party's plan to radically improve the people's living standard in near future will be translated into a reality.

Great efforts should be channeled into improving public service while increasing the production of consumer goods.

In order to quickly improve the people's living standard by bringing about a new turn in the development of light industry the officials in the field of light industry should increase their responsibility and role.

Officials of the ministries and national institutions in the field of light industry should learn about and grasp in detail the overall situation of light industry and actual conditions of the units under them. On this basis they should command in a responsible manner the operations for solving knotty problems and bringing about a new turn in the development of light industry.

The officials in the field of light industry should reject stiffness, schema, stagnation and depression, work in a unique and resilient manner and shape reasonable management and business strategies to ensure expanded reproduction and reenergize production by their own efforts.

The officials should have ardent patriotism, value their own things and make positive efforts to develop them to be better than others'.

Scientists and technicians should solve scientific and technological issues arising in the on-going production in good time and, at the same time, study and round off innovative plans for producing raw materials for light industry locally and putting machines and equipment and production processes on a CNC and automation basis and develop more new varieties of light industrial products and functional goods.

The whole state should attach importance to light industry and channel great efforts into its development.

Various sectors and units of national economy should render positive help to the field of light industry, bearing in mind the Party's intention to effect a turn in the people's living in the shortest possible span of time.

The Party organizations should increase their roles in order to rapidly develop light industry.

We have not a few difficulties and bottlenecks at present but light industry has a bright prospect of its development, he noted, and continued:

As long as there are a solid foundation of light industry provided by President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il through all their lives' dedication and the people intensely loyal to the Party's leadership, a turn is sure to be effected in the development of the light industry and our people will fully enjoy wealth and glory under socialism without fail.

The Party Central Committee firmly believes that the officials and workers in the field of light industry will turn out with confidence of victory and bring about a new turn in its development, he concluded.