opinion

Under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea which has long desired to build an ideal society where all the people live a happy and civilized life equally, phenomenal successes have been achieved one after another on this land.

Cities and counties assume a very important mission and role in developing the regional economy and stabilizing the people’s livelihood and improving their living standards.

They are comprehensive units for regional development and regional bases. The work of sprucing up the appearance of the regional areas and improving the people’s standard of living and that of bringing about the overall rejuvenation of the country largely depend on their role.

The development of cities and counties leads to the comprehensive development of socialism of our own style.

To strengthen them means to dynamically push ahead with the independent and diversified development of them, thereby making epochal progress in laying the foundations for the promotion of well-being of the people across the country.

Only when cities and counties implement the lines and policies of the Workers’ Party of Korea related to improving the people’s standard of living, such as the radical increase in grain production, normalization of production at regional-industry factories and the work of giving a facelift to the looks of regional areas by building modern farmhouses, can they further improve the people’s living standards in the regions.

Thanks to the measures taken by the state, a substantial step forward has been taken in laying the material and technical foundations of the agricultural sector including the readjustment and reinforcement of the irrigation system.

The construction of dwelling houses to suit the regional features has been undertaken on a large scale, giving a new facelift to the rural communities. Regional-industry factories embodying the modernity, the level of civilization and practical utility were wonderfully built as the first entities of the regional development policy in 20 cities and counties. And the offshore farms and other creations conducive to the improvement of the living standards of the regional people have also sprung up one after another.

This year, too, the construction of modern regional-industry factories is going full steam ahead in another 20 cities and counties and projects for putting the operation of regional-industry factories on a normal footing are also in full swing including those for training technicians and skilled workers and creating raw materials bases.

All cities and counties continue to expand their leverage for economic development by making positive efforts to make the most of the economic resources and potentials peculiar to the regions and develop and use them effectively.

This is a brilliant fruition brought by the plan and leadership of our Party to make the regional development represent the advance and development of our state and make the ideal appearance of the regional areas the true feature of the DPRK-style socialism.

When more than 200 cities and counties across the country thrive, a new phase of regional changes will be opened and our advance toward a new horizon of national rejuvenation will grow faster.