The regional-industry factories newly built according to the Regional Development 20×10 Policy set forth by the Workers’ Party of Korea are producing various kinds of goods which are supplied to local residents successively.

Growing pride

All the county people happily say that the products of the county’s regional-industry factories have really changed for the better. It is because the confectionery of relevant factories has improved not only in taste but also in packaging as much as those of central factories.

Here is an interesting anecdote. When a woman who married into a family of other local area recently visited her parents living in the county, they served her the confectionery produced by a foodstuff factory in their county, saying that it had been sent by a relative in Pyongyang. After tasting the foods, the daughter said that the foods produced by a Pyongyang factory were really delicious.

Then the mother said: “They were actually produced in our county. We also produce tasty and highly nutritious foods. Our county’s products are the best.”

Our county people have such pride.

We will increase the production of such foodstuffs favoured by the people in the future.

Kim Sun Dok, manageress of the Sukchon County Foodstuff Factory in South Phyongan Province

Jaeryong County has changed!

Our county, which previously boasted only rice as a famous granary, now boasts the goods produced by its modern regional-industry factories.

The goods include such foodstuffs as rice cake bar, soya bean oil and pear and apple juice.

They are not inferior to those of central factories in taste, quality and packaging.

The elderly natives of the locality, moved by the incredible reality, tell their descendants that it is thanks to the care of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

As shops in villages are filled with the goods from the factories, the county peoples’ living standards are improving.

Ho Son Ae, leader of Workteam No. 4 of the township farm of Jaeryong County, South Hwanghae Province

Gap between the capital city and provinces disappears

The goods show of regional-industry factories in 20 cities and counties held in Pyongyang this year caused a sensation.

Public interest in the show unusually increased because it was an event to evaluate the quality of products of the new factories, the first fruits of regional rejuvenation.

Presented to the show were over 400 articles of condiments, foodstuffs, daily necessities, garments and pieces of furniture in dozens of kinds. Dozens of experts in the fields of food, garment and daily necessities industries and quality control in the 20 cities and counties acted as the jury to examine the goods of the new factories in items of appearance and five senses.

The booth of each county drew the attention of visitors as it displayed the county’s own unique goods.

Some cities and counties amazed the experts as they ensured hygienic and nutritional indexes of foodstuffs on a high level.

Visitors said that the exhibits did not look like regional products, adding that what they liked most were specialties such as natural drinks, that they were already satisfied with the thought that such specialties would be produced at all regional-industry factories to be built in the future and that the venue throbbed with the pulse of the era of regional changes.

Phyo Jong Gum, department director of the Ministry of Regional Industry