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.