Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) -- The first short course for chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees, which made a new milestone for the strengthening of the city and county Party committees, renovation of the Party work and regional development in the history of our glorious Party, was closed with the fourth-day sitting on March 6.

The fourth-day sitting took place amid the strong revolutionary enthusiasm of the chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees who are determined to make devoted efforts for the development of their cities and counties and improvement of the people's standard of living, bearing deep in mind the high intention of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un who provided them with a precious opportunity for re-equipment and brush-up to become true Party officials honorable before the revolution and faithful to the trust of the people while carefully leading them.

Jo Yong Won, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and secretary in charge of organizational affairs of the Party Central Committee, had a lecture under the title of more thoroughly establishing the unified leadership system of the Party Central Committee.

He underscored the importance and significance of more thoroughly establishing the unified leadership system of the Party Central Committee in our Party building, its activities and the strengthening of its leadership and fighting efficiency, and gave an detailed explanation of the principles and tasks to be surely maintained by the city and county Party organizations to faithfully uphold the guidance of the Party Central Committee.

He called on the Party organizations to thoroughly establish the revolutionary disciplines and order of acting as one under the instructions of the Party Central Committee and unconditionally implementing the Party's decisions to the end and thus firmly consolidate all the cities and counties into iron fortresses, inviolable cornerstones reliably defending the Party and the state.

It was stressed in the lecture that the chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees should remain boundlessly loyal to the sacred duty entrusted to them by the era and the revolution, keeping in their minds the iron truth that the victory of our revolution, prosperity of the country and happy future of the people rests with defending and upholding the Party Central Committee led by the General Secretary.

Adopted in the short course was a letter of pledge representing the firm resolution of the chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees to successfully turn their regions into fortresses of single-hearted unity and socialist paradises true to the Party's grand line on developing cities and counties.

While guiding the short course, Kim Jong Un gave valuable instructions which would serve as guidelines in the work of the chief secretaries.

Saying that city and county Party committees are major combat units that organize and carry out the implementation of the Party's line and policies, he noted that the flag of victory can be fluttered on the overall fronts of socialist construction when the city and county Party committees vigorously mobilize the popular masses for the revolutionary work by properly applying the leading idea and art of the Party Central Committee.

He called upon the chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees to make the masses definitely turn the struggle for regional development into the work of their own by proficiently conducting the work with officials, Party members and other masses with higher sense of responsibility.

Saying that the chief secretaries should equip not only themselves but also the officials of the city and county Party committees with our Party's idea of and line on attaching importance to cities and counties and unite them as one and achieve practical successes by brainstorming, he inspired them with confidence that there can be no fortress unconquerable when everything is organized in keeping with specific conditions as required by the Party's policies and carried out by relying on the broad masses of people.

He noted that all the cities and counties will be turned into places good to live in when the chief secretaries set clear development-oriented goals and make uninterrupted innovations and struggle for their implementation, and introduced in detail the important works planned by the Party Central Committee for bringing balanced and rapid upheavals to local areas.

Saying that the chief secretaries should determinedly fight a way out and energetically steer the development of their cities and counties by actively applying good experience introduced in the short course to their work, he gave earnest instructions that they should always attach importance to the mindset of people and let their work be appreciated by the people.

He said that many problems raised in the work of the city and county Party committees are attributable even to the chief secretaries of the provincial Party committees, stressing that the chief secretaries of the provincial Party committees should discharge their duties in improving the work of the city and county Party committees in their provinces and guiding and assisting the chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees.

Kim Jong Un made a closing address to the first short course for chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees.

Noting that our Party Central Committee attached great importance to the short course with big expectation for the role of the chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees in decisively shifting the socialist construction onto the next stage, he said that through the short course, practical experience for equipping, awakening and inspiring them once again and improving and intensifying the work of the city and county Party committees was accumulated.

He highly appreciated that the chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees across the country participated in a meeting and short course with elated political enthusiasm, cogitation and positive attitude, unanimously bearing deep in their minds the intention of the Party Central Committee.

Saying the chief secretaries should always be aware that officials, Party members and other working people in their cities and counties will keep an eye of greater expectation on them who come back after participating in the first short course, the first of its kind in the history of our Party, he stressed that the solemn pledge taken by the chief secretaries is an oath they swore before the people of their counties and a supreme task to be carried out in any case without fail.

He said that all the chief secretaries should display great courage, strenuous spirit, inexhaustible enthusiasm and devotion hundreds times stronger than ever before to determinedly strive hard with high ideal and great desire for turning their regions into the fortresses of single-hearted unity firmly linked with the Party Central Committee in idea and intention and into bases of happiness where the people enjoy actual wellbeing and civilization.

He called upon the chief secretaries to fulfill their responsibility and role in renovating the Party work and developing their cities and counties in strict accordance with the strategic and tactical policies and tasks which were set forth at the historic Party congress and the plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee and detailed in the short course.

He asked all the chief secretaries to conduct a powerful organizational and political work for implementing the Party's policies with a fresh view and attitude that they are newly appointed and start their work from now, play the role of steering the development of cities and counties well and thus bring about clear changes and successes to be welcomed and realized by the people.

Saying that the chief secretaries should possess of the spirit of unconditionally serving the people and the organizing ability and drive, practical capability and noble moral traits appropriate for officials who are in charge of regional bases of socialist construction, he warmly called upon them to make every possible effort to record in history the decisions made at the 8th Party Congress as the ones successfully implemented.

Enthusiastically appealing to them to become real servants accepted by the people on the road of serving our great people, he declared the first short course for chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees closed.

When he finished the closing address, all the participants raised stormy cheers of "Hurrah!" with boundless respect for the General Secretary who indicated clear orientation and ways for epoch-making development of all cities and counties across the country with his rare wisdom and outstanding ideological and theoretical activities and instilled them with great confidence and courage.

All the chief secretaries made a firm resolution to resolutely defend the dignity of the Party Central Committee and certainly repay the great trust of the people by thoroughly applying in their work the leadership traits of the General Secretary, who is spending the days of noble devotion to the prosperity of the country and happy life of our people, and thus registering practical success.

The first short course for chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees to be specially recorded in the militant course of our Party towards fresh victory of the revolution will serve as an opportunity of great change to cement the foundation for the development of cities and counties, regional bases of socialist construction, and dynamically propel the strengthening of our Party and overall development of the country. -0-