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Kim Jong Il Gives Field Guidance to Power Station and Fish Farm

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

   Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il gave field guidance to the newly built Orangchon Power Station No. 1 and the Jangyonho Fish Farm. The first leg of his guidance was the power station.
    Going round a generator room and a power distribution room, he acquainted himself in detail with the construction of the power station and electricity production there.
    The power station producing a lot of electricity by use of water of Orangchon was designed rationally and high quality has been ensured in its construction, he said, expressing great satisfaction over the fact that the people of the province have built a modern power station.
    It is, indeed, something to be proud of that the builders have constructed such modern power station at a time when they were hard pressed for everything, he noted, adding it is a very good method of abiding by the principle of profitability that they have ensured the commissioning of the power station ahead of schedule in order to boost the effectiveness in the investment made in its construction.
    He set forth the tasks to be tackled to operate the power station and make an effective use of the electricity produced by it.
    Then he went round the construction site of the Orangchon Dam.
    Feasting his eyes on the giant dam rising from across a ravine, he learned about the progress made in the project.
    He called upon the members of the youth shock brigade and other builders to speed up the construction of the dam with the same vim and vigor with which they built the power station No. 1 in a brief span of time and thus complete the remaining project ahead of schedule.
    In recent years we have built many power stations with large capacities in different parts of the country despite hard conditions, thus bringing about a rapid boost in the electricity production, he said, and went on: This signal turn is a striking proof of the validity and vitality of the WPK's policy of building minor hydraulic power stations on a large scale while constructing large ones.
    In order to satisfactorily meet the rapidly growing need for electricity in North Hamgyong Province, it should give fullest play to the capacities of the already built power stations and, at the same time, build more new power stations by harnessing all the available hydraulic power resources, he emphasized. The next leg of his guidance was the Jangyonho Fish Farm.
    He learned in detail how fishes are bred on the farm, going round fish ponds, spawning rooms and various other places of the farm.
    He set forth highly important tasks which would serve as guidelines for conducting fish breeding as a widespread mass movement.
    While providing field guidance to North Hamgyong Province, he advanced tasks to be undertaken by the province to put its economic work on a new higher stage.
    North Hamgyong Province occupies an important position in ensuring the nation's economic development as it has lots of enterprises in the fields of metal industry and extractive industry and other pilot domains of the national economy, he said, calling on it to play a pioneer's role in the building of an economic power.
    He was accompanied by Hong Sok Hyong, chief secretary of the North Hamgyong Provincial Committee of the WPK, Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the C.C., WPK, and Pak Nam Gi, department director of the same.