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 DPRK, inspected the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex, the Taean Heavy Machine Complex and the Sariwon Tinning Factory.
Going round the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex, he stressed the need for it to conduct the trial run of the newly-built energy-saving oxygen heat blast furnace scientifically and technologically, so as to make a substantial contribution to the development of the country's metallurgical industry and the strengthening of the production foundations of the complex, and to steadily raise the practicality and efficiency of the establishment of the overall production process of the complex and its management system in line with the trend of metallurgical technology development and complete the planned readjustment and reinforcement as soon as possible.
At the Taean Heavy Machine Complex, he said that officials should further improve their leadership abilities to unconditionally carry out the task for the production of custom-built equipment this year and repair industrial buildings in a substantial way.
At the Sariwon Tinning Factory, he called for positively introducing innovative methods to raise the plating technology to an advanced level and taking practical measures to consolidate the material and technical foundations of the factory.
The field consultative meetings discussed the issue of concentrating efforts and means on strengthening and perfecting the existing production foundation by increasing the technical power of the relevant units and successfully completing the project for putting the production lines on a Juche basis, the issue of boosting the production of iron and steel, lowering the production costs and steadily introducing Korean-style iron-producing technology, the issue of directing steady efforts to improving the working and living conditions of employees, and others.
Meanwhile, the premier learned about the updating of the Sariwon Tractor Parts Factory and discussed such issues as the supply of equipment, and the passing-on-technique and organized relevant work.
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