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Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK, has changed for the better beyond recognition thanks to the construction of the city which was pushed forward dynamically during the eighth term of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

The respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un made the construction of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang a policy at the historic Eighth Congress of the WPK in reflection of the people's desire to live in a cultured way in excellent houses and organized and led the grand construction campaigns one after another every year, ushering in a golden age of capital construction.

At the Second Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK, the General Secretary set the building of dwelling houses as an important undertaking to provide the people with stable and highly cultured life and a political issue to defend the prestige of the Party Congress. On March 23 2021 he attended a groundbreaking ceremony of the project for building 10 000 flats in Pyongyang and expressed belief that the construction project for 50 000 flats would renovate the appearance of the capital city once again and usher in an era of fresh dynamic advance which would develop socialist construction stage by stage with confidence.

Saying that the construction of dwelling houses in the capital city is a long-desired project being pushed by the Party and the state as a top priority and a promise made by the Party and the government to the people, he provided wise guidance to make the capital city construction theatre a main front, symbolic of a new period of upsurge and great turn in socialist construction.

He examined the plans for the layouts of dwelling houses and their bird's eye views and repeatedly visited the construction sites late at night and early in the morning to lead the work to steadily break new ground for the development of socialist civilization in construction. Thanks to his energetic guidance, miraculous construction legends were produced one after another during the construction of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang.

In just one year there appeared wonderful Songhwa Street, as the first entity guaranteeing the definite success of the five-year plan for the capital city construction, with more than 160 blocks of skyscraping and high-rise apartment houses, public buildings and service amenities with a total floor space of one million and hundreds of thousands of square metres in an area covering 56 hectares.

Also built on the picturesque banks of the Pothong River was the terraced houses district as a standard and model of residential district in the country as it ensured perfect combination of buildings and nature and the organic and scientific layout of living space and ecological space while retaining the natural environment.

The construction of 10 000 flats at the first stage in the Hwasong area was an enormous task involving the building of hundreds of skyscrapers, high-rise apartment houses and public buildings, service networks and facilities in 150-odd hectares of area, along with the construction of over 2 000 flats more than planned.

The builders, however, fully displayed the tough fighting spirit and strength of self-reliance and self-development to complete the construction project in one year once again, thus unfolding scenes of moving into new houses.

The construction of the second-stage 10 000 flats in the Hwasong area and that of a new street in the Sopho area were started in 2023 and completed in 2024 without fail. This clearly proved the development potential of the country creating socialist civilization.

Under the Party’s scientific and energetic guidance, the construction of 10 000 flats at the third stage in the Hwasong area was completed in 2025, demonstrating another new large architectural group consisting of modern skyscrapers and high-rise apartment houses embodying an ideal harmony of architectural formative and artistic beauty and advanced civilization and distinctive commercial and public catering facilities with a strong symbolic character.

As a result, the Hwasong area revealed its full appearance as a centre and model capable of leading the existing areas of the capital city to civilization and efflorescence with its political, economic and cultural functions befitting a fully-fledged administrative district, and meaningful development was achieved whereby modernized Pyongyang of today presents a striking contrast with itself of the past which had undergone changes for several decades.

With the inauguration of 10 000 flats at the fourth stage in the Hwasong area, which were built to conclude the final-stage struggle for implementing the five-year plan for capital city construction, and that of Saeppyol Street in February of this year, the Hwasong area came to be further glorified as a symbol of and synonym for a new miracle in socialist Korea.

The struggle of the past five years full of changes recorded a golden age of capital city construction ushered in by the great leadership in the history of the development of the capital city.