Pyongyang, June 10 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, gave field guidance at the construction site of Kusong City Hospital on June 9.

He was accompanied by Jo Yong Won and Ri Hi Yong, secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK, and Kim Jae Ryong and Kim Yong Su, department directors of the Central Committee of the WPK.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was greeted on the spot by officials of the construction unit and design institutions.

Making the rounds of the construction site, he learned in detail about the progress made in the construction.

The Kusong City Hospital is one of the hospitals which are under construction on different scales on a demonstration basis in three cities and counties in 2025, according to the decision of the Eleventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK.

Kim Jong Un said that at present the construction sector, a major sphere of our struggle and the main front symbolizing the steady advance and development of our state, is continuously expanding and developing, and the fulfilment of the huge construction plan designed by our Party indispensably requires the rapid and qualitative strengthening of the construction workforce.

Construction, which proves with definite entities the leap forward towards civilization and rejuvenation we aspire to, is carried out from start to finish by the construction workforce, the mainstay of the gigantic creative struggle, he said, adding that it is our Party's view that the preparation of the workforce means a sure guarantee for the construction revolution in the new era.

Saying that the historic task of rapidly establishing a national system for expanding and strengthening the workforce in a qualitative way should be tackled correctly, he underscored its importance repeatedly.

Strengthening the workforce is not an immediate short-term issue but a strategic task in the ten-year construction struggle for regional rejuvenation, he noted. He pointed out that although large workforces of the People's Army have been dispatched to the huge construction fronts formed by our Party at present and their revolutionary enthusiasm is growing day by day, the efficiency of using the workforces is not ensured at the proper level due to the non-specialization and inexperience in the organization and command of construction.

In order to ensure a vigorous advance of gigantic construction to which our Party and state are directing much effort, a rapid state measure should be taken for the qualitative strengthening of the workforce with the main emphasis put on training skilled workers, he said, adding that, to this end, an intensive short course will be organized for the present to improve the practical abilities of officials in the construction sector of units at all levels.

Kim Jong Un said that the intensive short course for officials at all levels in the construction sector to be held after the Twelfth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party should deal with the urgent problems arising in carrying out the construction revolution, including the establishment of a well-regulated system of training skilled workers.

He said that the gigantic struggle for the implementation of our Party's regional development policy should be a revolution to fundamentally and ultimately put an end to the centuries-old backwardness and laggardness of the regional areas and, at the same time, a process of transforming the old customs, outdated culture and obsolete technology that remain in the construction sector in line with the new era and a historic process of training all the builders to be creators of new culture and new civilization and genuine socialist builders.

We have a guards hero unit, that is a unit of competent construction educators with excellent construction potentiality, and if all the experience and models being created by them in construction are positively applied to the construction enterprises at all levels and military construction groups, amazing progress will be made in carrying out our Party's construction policy, he said, adding that this problem can also be solved through the technical short course.

Saying that it is a key issue to train the reliable technical forces necessary for the assembly of equipment as the hospital is, unlike dwelling houses and industrial buildings, a functional building in which the terminals of the infrastructure, medical equipment and appliances and all other things should be technically compatible with one another, Kim Jong Un set forth a series of important tasks, which should be carried out in the construction field without delay, including the issue of examining the establishment of an enterprise specializing in medical equipment assembly and the issue of further increasing the proportion of construction work done by machines and steadily improving the level of modernization of equipment. -0-