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, guided on the spot the construction of the Sinuiju General Greenhouse Farm and the work for regional development on September 18.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was accompanied by Jo Yong Won and Pak Jong Chon, secretaries of the WPK Central Committee, and Kim Jae Ryong, department director of the WPK Central Committee.

He was greeted on the spot by commanding officers of the large combined units of the services of the Korean People's Army and the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade involved in the construction and officials of design and relevant institutions.

Thanks to the far-reaching plan and direct guidance of Kim Jong Un to turn the border area into a thriving area which embodies modern, original and national characters, different types of greenhouses, a vegetable processing factory, storage facilities, scientific and technological research and dissemination bases, trial cultivation greenhouses, dwelling houses and various cultural life bases are being built in a unique way in the vast area of Wihwado, the northwestern part of the country, presenting a magnificent scenery of a record greenhouse farm and the "big farm city".

Kim Jong Un went round the glass hydroponic greenhouse district, the vegetable science research centre and other places of the construction site to learn in detail about the construction.

Watching a sea change of the area, he expressed satisfaction over it, saying that the might of the service personnel and young people is, indeed, great and the island area which was treated as an barren land only a year ago due to the yearly flood has become a "treasure island" with the great potential to lead the radical development of the regional economy and the improvement of the material life of the people in the region.

Saying that the construction of the Sinuiju General Greenhouse Farm serves as an important occasion of clearly showing once again the higher stage and progressive process of the regional rejuvenation led by the WPK, he stressed that through the change in the area, he is more convinced it is possible to successfully turn all the regions of the country into the people's paradise within ten or twenty years.

He highly appreciated the thoroughgoing spirit of serving the people and efforts of the officers and men of the construction units and young vanguard who are devoting themselves to the eternal prosperity of the country with confidence and courage to change the era with their own efforts and asked the officials to convey to all the builders his special thanks and ardent call for building a monumental edifice demonstrating the eye-opening advance speed and development of Korean-style socialism in the northern part of the country and presenting it to the Ninth Congress of the WPK.

Acquainting himself with the construction project for the regional development and its long-term plan, he pointed out a series of deviations.

He said that it is the core requirement of the WPK's policy on regional development to make the regional rejuvenation represent the advance and development of the state and the ideal appearance of regional areas a true picture of socialist Korea, stressing once again that the design sector should put its effort to making a meticulous calculation of economic effectiveness and profitability and applying optimum options while ensuring the functional occupancy and modernity at the stage of designing.

Noting that there should not be any slightest fault in the construction of the Sinuiju General Greenhouse Farm as it is the work the WPK has organized on the largest scale for the independent and diversified development of the regional economy and its result is an important issue directly linked to the improvement of the material life of the regional people, he indicated the detailed tasks and ways for successfully completing the construction of the general greenhouse farm including the issue of conducting the work to put the farm management on an IT and automated basis at a high level, the issue of improving the environment around the construction site in a qualitative way, regarding it as a key record indicator equivalent to the one of the building of facilities or the assembling of equipment and the issue of creating the landscape and overall greening in the district of the permanent embankments in an aesthetic and scientific way.

He expressed expectation and belief that all the soldier-builders and members of the youth shock brigade would give full play to the strong mental power, unflinching executing abilities and enthusiastic fighting spirit peculiar to the revolutionary army and heroic youth in the new era in the construction of the large-scale greenhouse farm and regional development and thus make a report on their proud achievements made in the construction for regional change to the Ninth Congress of the WPK.