Another page telling about the great devotion of the Workers’ Party of Korea has been recorded in the history of the sacred service of the WPK devoting all its sincerity and enthusiasm to the people.

On August 31, a consultative meeting on regional development was held under the guidance of General Secretary Kim Jong Un. It indicated a new direction of stepping up the historic cause of regional development by simultaneously pushing ahead with the building of public health facilities, sci-tech dissemination bases and food management facilities together with that of regional-industry factories now under construction.

At the meeting the General Secretary said that the regional development policy of the WPK in the new era should not be confined to the construction of regional-industry factories, but become a comprehensive policy embracing public health, science and education, and that only then, can it truly contribute to the improvement of the material and cultural life of the regional people and radically enhance the efficiency of regional development. And he clarified all the principles to be adhered to in building advanced city and county hospitals, scientific and technological dissemination centres and food management facilities.

Gigantic projects have been undertaken on a full scale in the DPRK, including that for completing the irrigation system of the country in the main in the coming few years and radically raising the proportion of mechanization in agricultural production, that for drastically improving the people’s dietary life by changing the structure of grain production, that for building 50 000 flats in Pyongyang and building all rural villages in a modern way, that for building up the security guarantee of the country to the maximum without limits and that for not simply restoring the flood-hit areas, but turning them into a model of urbanization, modernization and civilization of the rural areas and a textbook-like entity.

Under the circumstances the regional development policy has been expanded and enriched and strong measures have been taken to implement it. It is a manifestation of the great ambition of the WPK to bridge the gap between the capital and regional areas and correct the imbalance between regions and bring about a marked change and a brilliant efflorescence in all fields of socialist construction.

Referring to the essential three-point construction tasks for regional development at the consultative meeting on regional development, the General Secretary earnestly stressed that these gigantic tasks undertaken by the Party are an important matter based on scientific calculation and that it is the demand of the Party Central Committee that they should be carried out at such a high level that the regional people can benefit from them even after 100 years.

Referring to the importance and significance of the three construction projects newly added to the Regional Development 20×10 Policy, Kim Jong Un said in his speech to mark the 76th founding anniversary of the DPRK, Let Us Make Redoubled Efforts for the Prosperity of Our Great State: “We are going to build the sci-tech dissemination bases, which are intended as an additional project, into comprehensive bases for cultural life. We should build in cities and counties bases that not only are equipped with modern IT means for sci-tech learning but also serve multifunctional and complex cultural purposes, so that local residents can see films or play sports and amusement games there; and commercial outlets and various other welfare facilities with satisfactory hygienic environment and conditions are also to be furnished in them.”

When the comprehensive regional development policy in the new era, which embraces not only the construction of light industry factories but also public health, science and education, is carried out, the mountains and rivers of the DPRK will change beautifully and spectacularly and the people as well.