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Kim Jong Il Gives Field Guidance to Work in Various Fields of Kanggye City

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, February 4 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, gave on-the-spot guidance to the work in various fields of Kanggye City. He was accompanied by Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, and Ri Yong Chol and Jang Song Thaek, first vice department directors of the C. C., the WPK.
    He was greeted on the spot by Pak To Chun, chief secretary of the Jagang Provincial Committee of the WPK, Ri Tuk Nam, chief secretary of the Kanggye City Committee of the WPK, and other senior officials of the province, the city and industrial establishments.
    The first leg of his on-the-spot guidance was the Kanggye Wood Processing Factory. He went round the processing shop and the finishing shop and other production processes to acquaint himself with the equipment and the production there. He highly appreciated the successes made by the workers of the factory, very pleased to learn that they are producing and supplying a variety of attractive and useful furniture including wardrobe, bedclothes chest and bookshelf in the spirit of devoted service to the people.
    The factory has established a production system whereby to make a comprehensive and reasonable use of wood through a widespread mass technical innovation movement, thereby strictly abiding by the principle of profitability in the industrial management, he said, adding that the experience gained by this factory has proved in practice that science and technology precisely mean production and vise versa. The second leg of his visit was the new modern Kanggye Koryo Medicine Processing Factory.
    Medicament, one of the basic means for preventive and curative medical care, is an important material basis for giving full play to the genuine advantages of the socialist public health system in our country, he noted, underscoring the need to direct great efforts to its production in order to enable the people to fully benefit from it. Pointing out that Koryo medicines are good for human bodies in many aspects, he called for increasing the production of efficacious Koryo medicines by use of medicinal herbs containing various kinds of properties of medicine.
    The third leg of his visit was the Jagang Provincial Branch of the Central Bank. The employees there have brought out a signal turn in banking business by computerizing all processes as required by the new century.
    Underlining the need for all fields and units to dynamically push forward updating on the basis of the latest science and technology, he stressed that the combination of the most revolutionary idea in the country with the latest science and technology would bring about great changes in the revolution and construction and convert the country into an invincible one and a true land of bliss for the people.
    The fourth leg of his visit was the new Hungju Chicken Farm covering an area of more than 20 hectares.
    He highly appreciated the successes made by the constructors in their devoted efforts to build a rich and powerful country, noting that the farm was designed well and built in high quality as required by the new century.
    He set forth tasks to be undertaken to manage and operate the farm, noting that in order to rapidly boost the production on the chicken farms it is necessary to establish a scientific breeding system with a view to obtaining lots of superior breeds suited to the climatic conditions of the country, build a solid feed base and place the breeding on a scientific basis.
    Then he toured Kanggye City which makes progress demonstrating the dynamism of socialism. The people of Jagang Province who grew stronger through the "Arduous March", the forced march have turned all the urban and rural areas into a land of bliss by their own efforts, he said, highly appreciating the patriotic enthusiasm of the officials and other party members and working people in the province who are courageous pace-setters carving out the hopeful new century with persevering will.
    Saying that Jagang Province that resounds with marches of revolution is performing world startling miracles and exploits day by day, he emphasized this stirring reality is a brilliant fruition of the Kanggye spirit and a manifestation of the inexhaustible mental power of the Korean people.