The first short course for chairpersons of the provincial, city and county people’s committees took place at the conference hall of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea from September 29 to October 2.

It was convened to ensure that the chairpersons of the people’s committees successfully fulfil their responsibilities and roles as the engine for leading the independent and multi-faceted development of relevant regions and the administrators responsible for the people’s livelihood in turning all cities and counties into strategic bases for building a powerful socialist country and turning them into the developed areas with their own peculiar characters, true to the Party’s idea of attaching importance to the cities and counties and its line of strengthening them.

It was attended by chairpersons of the provincial, city and county people’s committees, administrative department directors of the provincial people’s committees and officials of the Secretariat of the Cabinet.

Jo Yong Won, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and secretary for Organizational Affairs of the Central Committee of the WPK, delivered an opening address.

During the short course, there was an intensive lecture and practical study on the work principles and methodological issues to be prioritized and surely applied by the chairpersons of the people’s committees in planning, organizing and guiding the work of power organs and all the economic and cultural affairs in their relevant areas, as required by the Party’s plan and the new era when the local areas change.

Taking the floor at the lecture were Kim Tok Hun, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and premier of the Cabinet, Ri Il Hwan, Kim Jae Ryong and O Su Yong, secretaries of the WPK Central Committee, Ri Hi Yong, first deputy department director of the WPK Central Committee, and Kim Kum Chol, secretary general of the Cabinet.

The lecture underlined the need for the chairpersons of the provincial, city and county people’s committees to fundamentally improve their work style and attitude, aware of their heavy mission and duty of being responsible for the regional bases of the country and the strategic fortress of socialist construction, and to establish a climate of implementing to the letter the Party’s decisions.

It explained the issue of turning all cities and counties into the highly civilized ones where the Korean-style development and regional characteristics are epitomized in all sectors of politics, the economy and culture.

It also explained that the success or failure of the independent and diversified development of the cities and counties depends on the vigorous drive for realizing the long-term management of the economic affairs of the cities and counties, as required by the Party’s line and policy for economic construction and the Korean-style methods of economic management.

It also stressed the need to display the people-oriented work method and style of devotedly serving the people by implementing the people-first principle, and dealt with the ways for decisively enhancing the functions and roles of the city and county people’s committees.

Through the lecture, the participants realized more deeply the validity of the Party’s line and policy of strengthening the people’s power organs, cities and counties, and grasped the methodologies conducive to bringing about a turn in improving the people’s living standards.

During the short course, they deeply reviewed the study for improving their political and practical qualifications, looked at the photos dealing with the immortal history of the revolutionary activities of the peerlessly great men, saw a film and a drama on the theme of devoted efforts for the good of the people, and attended other political and cultural events.