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Ground-breaking Ceremony of Construction of Taean Friendship Glass Factory Held

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, July 1 (KCNA) -- The Taean Friendship Glass Factory, a donation to the DPRK from the government of the People's Republic of China, will rise. The factory with a total area of 293,000 square meters will be built at the highest level of modernization.
    It will be constructed under the deep care of leader Kim Jong Il and the new collective leadership of China with Hu Jintao as general secretary. It will stand as one of the biggest symbols of the DPRK-China friendship as it will greatly contribute to the socialist construction and the improvement of the standard of people's living in the DPRK.
    The ground-breaking ceremony of the factory was held on the spot on Thursday.
    Present at the ceremony were Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, Han Song Ryong, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Jo Tae Ha, chairman of the South Phyongan Provincial People's Committee, officials of ministries and national institutions, officials concerned and builders.
    Also present there were the Chinese government economic and trade delegation led by Chen Jian, assistant to the minister of Commerce of China, Chinese Ambassador e.p. to the DPRK Wu Donghe, staff members of the embassy and Chinese guests.
    Jo Yun Hui, minister of Construction and Building-Materials Industries, addressing the ceremony, extended greatest thanks to Kim Jong Il who made sure with deep concern that a ground-breaking ceremony was held with success to make the factory, a donation from the government of the PRC, rise as a symbol of Korea-China friendship. The minister also expressed deep thanks to the new collective leadership of China with Hu Jintao as general secretary and its government for donating the factory.
    He recalled the fact that the Chinese government decided to donate a modern glass factory to the DPRK on the occasion of the Korean visit by the Chinese state delegation led by Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, in October last year. The new collective leadership of China has attached importance to this matter and paid deep attention to it, he said, and went on:
    Korea and China are neighbors sharing the same mountain and river. The two countries have built socialism supporting and cooperating with each other and the DPRK will as ever do every effort to boost the traditional Korea-China friendship alongside the fraternal Chinese people.
    Head of the Chinese delegation Chen Jian in his congratulatory speech noted that the two countries are the neighbors linked with the same mountain and river and the traditional friendly relations provided by the leaders of the old generation of the two countries is now growing stronger thanks to the leaders of the new generation.
    The Chinese party and government set great store by the Sino-Korean friendly and cooperative relations and it is their steadfast policy to strengthen and develop them, he said.
    Expressing the belief that the Korean people will achieve greater success in their efforts to build Korean-style socialism under the leadership of Kim Jong Il, he stressed the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries will be everlasting.
    Speeches were made by the manager of the Metal and Construction Complex, the general manager of the Yao Hua Glass General Company of China and others.
    At the end of the ground-breaking ceremony the participants were briefed on the panoramic map of the factory and worked together with builders.