Last year the Ryongsong Machine Complex produced several kinds of large compressors, creating the Chollima spirit in the new era.

The Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea held in December 2022 laid a stress on the issue of large compressor, which is of vital importance in fertilizer production.

At that time, it seriously dealt with the issue of whether to invest huge funds in importing modern machinery needed for the readjustment and reinforcement of large-scale fertilizer production bases or to make them by the country itself.

It finally decided to make large compressor with the country’s own technology and entrusted the task to the complex.

In fact, it was a challenging task for it when considering its existing production capacity.

The complex has won fame as an enterprise capable of making any large machines and equipment once it was determined to do.

Its workers manufactured an 8-metre turning lathe during the five-year plan for national economic development (1957-1961) when everything was destroyed and in short supply after the Fatherland Liberation War (1950-1953), a 3 000-ton and 6 000-ton presses in the 1960s, a 20-metre lathe, an 18-metre turning lathe, a 400-mm planer in the 1970s, and a 70-metre gantry planer and a 10 000-ton press in the 1980s.

Based on such traditions, its officials, technicians and workers turned out as one in the drive to produce large compressors, following the examples of their preceding generations who had manufactured large machines, smashing mysticism about technique and conservatism with a sense of patriotism.

In those days, the officials and designers at the Ryongsong Machine Designing Institute drew thousands of designs in 25 days, breaking the established idea that it would take over one year to design them.

The workers in charge of processing materials made a contribution to ensuring the speed and quality by machining with lathes the parts which were believed to be processed with borers. They also launched a mass technical innovation movement to solve technical bottlenecks by dint of science and technology and their own efforts and thus carried out their task to the letter.

At the Ninth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un highly appreciated the heroic feats of the workers of the complex who successfully finished the production of large compressors before the plenary meeting by displaying the spirit of self-reliance and fortitude while manufacturing lots of custom-built equipment.

The Chollima spirit of the new era has been created by the workers of the complex.

This year, too, they are striving to attain a new goal by redoubling the patriotic enthusiasm they displayed last year.

Kim Ye Ryong