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Premier Kim inspects Kumsong Tractor Factory and Namhung Youth Chemical Complex

Date: 05/12/2024 | Source: Pyongyang Times | Read original version at source

Premier Kim Tok Hun, who is also member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, inspected the Kumsong Tractor Factory and the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex.

Going round various places of the Kumsong Tractor Factory, he encouraged the officials and workers in their efforts for successfully attaining the goal of this year's struggle set forth by the Party and learned in detail about the progress in the second-stage modernization project.

He said that the officials should grasp in detail the overall construction by displaying a high sense of responsibility and intensify planning and command as the modernization project is being pushed ahead at the final stage.

He stressed the need for them to take timely measures to prevent any defect in all elements while taking into full consideration the practicality and efficiency of production processes in accordance with the Party's strategy for developing farm machines, and carry on the construction work, assembling of equipment and trial operation according to objects and systems in keeping with the high demand of the modernization target.

He called for steadily improving the performance of products by strengthening the factory's own technical forces and providing all conditions necessary for properly producing high-performance and quality tractors and farm machines, including the maximum efficiency test of newly-made farm machines, on an advanced level.

He also learned about the fertilizer production and the construction of the production process of functional sheet at the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex and underscored the need to consolidate the successes and experience gained this year and successfully complete the planned readjustment and reinforcement project.

Field consultative meetings discussed the issue of completing the supply and installation of production equipment and the products under contract at relevant units in the set time, the issue of further increasing productivity by expanding production capacity and managing equipment and improving technical control in a responsible manner and others.

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