The Ryongsong Machine Complex, where a flaming torch was lit to create the Chollima spirit in the new era, has turned into a modern large-scale machine-building base capable of taking the lead in promoting the independent development and technological progress of the national economy.

At the historic Eighth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un indicated the clear orientation and ways for putting the country's machine-building industry on an advanced basis. He put forward the workers of the Ryongsong Machine Complex as the vanguard of the important political struggle for proving the might of self-reliance, a proud tradition of the Korean revolution, set forth the step-wise goals and tasks for turning the complex into a standard and model of modernization in the machine-building industry and took important measures for their implementation, while energetically leading the whole course of the project.

With his great trust and expectations cherished deep in their hearts, the workers, scientists and technicians at the complex successfully completed the huge first-stage modernization project by waging a vigorous patriotic struggle, a creation struggle, under the uplifted banner of self-sustenance and self-reliance. Thus, they gained valuable experience and laid solid material and technical foundations for the development of the country's economy and fresh progress of the overall machine-building industry, and made a report of loyalty to the Central Committee of the WPK that they had completed the project.

An inauguration ceremony of the first-stage modernization project at the Ryongsong Machine Complex was held on January 19.

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, attended the inauguration ceremony.

He was greeted respectfully by Ri Jong Nam, chief secretary of the South Hamgyong Provincial Committee of the WPK, and leading officials of the complex.

When he appeared at the venue of the ceremony, all the participants paid the highest respect to him who ushered in a new era of comprehensive prosperity to be specially recorded in the history of the country by leading to a great victory the historic struggle for the brilliant implementation of the revolutionary programme set forth at the Eighth Congress of the WPK with his outstanding ideology and energetic guidance.

Present at the ceremony were senior Party and government officials and other members of the central leadership of the Party, officials in South Hamgyong Province, builders, scientists and technicians, officials of relevant fields, and officials and employees of the Ryongsong Machine Complex.

Premier of the DPRK Cabinet Pak Thae Song addressed the ceremony.