The first short course for chief secretaries of city and county committees of the Workers’ Party of Korea continued on Friday.

In the third-day sitting, lectures were given to make the chief secretaries understand afresh, comprehensively and systematically the issues arising in consolidating the single-hearted unity of the Party and the revolutionary ranks in every way and providing efficient Party guidance for developing cities and counties in an independent and many-sided way.

Lectures were given by O Su Yong, member of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and secretary in charge of economic affairs of the Party Central Committee, and Kim Jae Ryong, member of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and director of the Organizational Leadership Department of the Party Central Committee.

The lectures dealt with the issues calling on city and county Party committees to innovate Party organizational and ideological work so as to consolidate the revolutionary position, class position, and proficiently mobilize officials, Party members and other working people in implementing the decisions of the Party congress.

The director of the Organizational Leadership Department of the Party Central Committee gave a lecture on practical issues of Party work arising in building up the ranks of cadres and Party ranks, improving the fighting efficiency of basic Party organizations, thoroughly applying the Party's people-first politics and preparing young people as successors to the revolution and reserves of the Party.

He gave a detailed explanation of the tasks facing city and county Party committees in transforming agricultural workers on a revolutionary and working class pattern by prioritizing Party work in rural communities, intensifying the work with primary officials and discharged soldiers in rural areas and intensifying the three revolutions—ideological, technological and cultural—and ways to do so.

He called for conducting political education aimed at boosting the masses' ideological and spiritual strength and creative enthusiasm in a novel way as urgently required by the times and the developing revolution and for increasing the penetration of idea and efficiency of ideological work by enlisting all the information and motivation forces of the Party.

The lecture also dealt with methodological matters for enhancing the role of the city and county Party organizations in developing the local economy and improving the people's living standards.

The secretary in charge of economic affairs in his lecture stressed that in order to turn every city and county into civilized and prosperous regional bases for socialist construction and advanced regions retaining their inherent characteristics as specified in the general objective of the Party's idea of attaching importance to the city and county and its line of strengthening them, city and county Party committees and their chief secretaries should provide correct Party guidance, policy-oriented guidance, to economic work.

He explained in detail the measures for settling the problems of food supply for the people and raw materials for light industry by giving priority to boosting cereals farming, animal husbandry and fishery which hold a big share in developing the economy of cities and counties.

Recommending the experience gained by city and county Party committees which have achieved definite successes by encouraging farms to introduce scientific farming methods and correctly apply the socialist principle of distribution, he underscored the need to effectively guide the work of intensifying the movement for producing high yield and of consolidating the material and technical foundations of rural areas while giving priority to arousing the zeal for production of agricultural workers who are masters of agricultural production.

He explained the ways for increasing consumer goods by revitalizing local industrial establishments in line with the natural and geographical characters of relevant areas and for sprucing up cities and counties and developing education, public health and sports.

The lecture stressed that all the chief secretaries of city and county Party committees should strengthen Party work to transform their regions into revolutionary areas and should fulfil their responsibility and role as organizers and standard-bearers in the struggle for developing the local economy and improving the people's standards of living, bearing deep in mind the heavy duty entrusted by the Party and the people to them.

The short course continues.