The historic Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea unveiled a grand plan to further expand the construction work for the comprehensive development of the state and the promotion of the welfare of the people throughout the country during the new long-term plan and ardently appealed to all the relevant units, including building-materials production bases, to bring about an upsurge in production, surpassing that of the past five years.

The Sangwon Cement Complex, which has faithfully repaid the Party's trust with proud increased cement production from one century into the next and from one decade into the next, is seething with the revolutionary enthusiasm and will to fulfil its honourable mission and play the vanguard role also in the grand struggle for glorifying the ninth term of the Party Central Committee with steady advance and leap forward.

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, on March 1 paid a congratulatory visit to the Sangwon Cement Complex advancing under the banner of the patriotic movement for increased production and encouraged its workers who are out in the new struggle to implement the decisions of the Party Congress.

He was accompanied by members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and other senior officials of the WPK Central Committee.

All the employees of the complex were filled with great emotion and joy as they came to have the dreamlike honour of receiving the great father, whom they had always desired to meet in the days of making new innovations and new miracles to glorify the era of great transformation, at their complex before others immediately after the historic Party Congress.

When Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived, they raised stormy cheers of "Hurrah!"

Looking up to him, all the participants extended their boundless thanks to him for always placing the workers of the complex before anyone else in his mind and repeatedly bestowing great trust and love on them so that they can continue to perform feats in the vanguard of the heroic struggle.

He was courteously greeted by Manager Yun Jae Hyok and other leading officials of the complex.

He extended his warm greetings of encouragement to the workers of the complex filled with the extraordinary determination and enthusiasm to uphold the grand construction plan set forth by the Party Congress with eye-opening success in cement production.

Kim Jong Un made a speech of encouragement.

Stating his true motive for visiting the workers of the Sangwon Cement Complex first after the Ninth Party Congress, he offered his tribute to the history of development of the complex and all its workers that have maintained an invariable attitude in providing faithful support to the Party’s resolute choice and made a tangible contribution to its implementation over the past five years, the period of really great difficulties, and that have written wonderful records of loyalty and patriotism alone since it went online.

There are a number of large and important enterprises in our country, but none of them has such a group of staunch and militant workers as the Sangwon workers, he said, highly appreciating the 40-odd-year history of the complex, which has added lustre to its appellation as a powerful enterprise that is able to do anything it decides to do, and particularly the success which the complex attained during the years of the eighth term of the Party Central Committee as it strongly supported through practical cement production the Party's plan for achieving remarkable progress and overall upsurge in socialist construction and opened up the greatest heyday of operation since its inauguration by expanding its production capacity and making constant efforts for increased production.

Supporting the Party and the country with boundless loyalty, aspiring after unlimited and daring innovation, and consistently prioritizing science and technology—this is the key to the complex's leaping forward and it is a formula for the increasing production achieved by our workers and also for the development of our times, he said. He affirmed that the soaring patriotic enthusiasm and mettle for increased production, which the Sangwon workers display in making continuous innovation and advance, constitute an absolute support for the Party's ideology and cause, and that this would be a torch inspiring the whole country to a heroic struggle.

Expressing his firm belief that the complex would continue to glorify the honourable history and traditions of Sangwon, which has been a constant source of great strength and reliance for the Party, he ardently called on everyone to display to the full the Korean people's dauntless spirit and wisdom, make an all-out effort again for the good of the great country and advance forward vigorously.

When he finished his speech, all the participants broke into enthusiastic cheers, looking up to him who most highly appreciated them and expressed great confidence that they would invariably be the standard-bearer in carrying out the new long-term plan.

Kim Jong Un visited the central control room to learn about cement production.

Praising the complex for registering high production results every month this year, the first year of carrying out the new five-year plan, he said that he still remembers the plenary meeting in December 2024 when the complex pledged before the Party to solve the most pending cement problem through increased production. He added that it is great encouragement and a source of pride for the Party and the state to have such ardent and sincere patriotic loyalists who understand the Party's distress and the country's situation before anyone else and devote themselves to solving the problems and such a large contingent of true revolutionaries who regard the Party's plan just as its rated capacity and unconditionally translate the Party's determination into reality.

Noting that the complex is facing a more enormous task to carry out during the ninth-term of the Party Central Committee and the whole country seething with transformation is pinning its hope on the complex, he stressed that the complex should bring about a steady upsurge on the strength of self-reliance based on advanced science and technology, while giving full play to the inexhaustible spiritual power of the masses in all work in conformity with the immutable truth that the reserves for increased production lie in the hearts of the producer masses and as intended by the Party which attaches absolute importance to the ideological one of the three resources of the revolution.

He had a photo taken with the labour innovators, meritorious persons and officials in commemoration of his visit to the complex.

When the photographing was over, the participants raised the stormy cheers of "Hurrah!" in reflection of their pledge of loyalty to the great Comrade Kim Jong Un who kindled the flames of vigorous struggle at the complex before others to arouse the whole country to attaining the new long-term goal.

Kim Jong Un waved back for a long time to the enthusiastically cheering crowds.

Cherishing the unshakable faith that the trust of the Party Central Committee is the lifeblood of the complex, the motive power of increased production and leap forward and the guarantee for sure victory and the heavy responsibility they have assumed on behalf of the times and the revolution, all the workers, technicians and officials of the complex vowed to work more courageously and vigorously, while displaying redoubled enthusiasm and power of execution, in order to attain the grandiose goal set forth at the Ninth WPK Congress.