Report on DPRK Cabinet's Work Last Year and Its Tasks for This Year
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)
Pyongyang, April 9 (KCNA) -- Premier of the Cabinet Kim Yong Il, deputy to the Supreme People's Assembly, delivered a report on the work done by the DPRK Cabinet in Juche 96 (2007) and its tasks for Juche 97 (2008) at the 6th session of the 11th SPA held Wednesday.
The report said:
The last year was the year of struggle and advance in which the political and military might of the DPRK was fully demonstrated all over the world and a fresh phase brought about in building an economic power under the unique Songun revolutionary leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Important political events including the grand political festivals commemorating the 95th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung and the 75th anniversary of the Korean People's Army and the election of deputies to the local power bodies helped strikingly demonstrate the solidity of the ideology and traditions of the DPRK, the indomitable will and the militancy of all the servicepersons and people single-mindedly united around the party and consolidate the DPRK government as firm as a rock.
Precious successes were achieved last year to demonstrate the economic potential of the country and the inexhaustible creative ability of our people.
Thousands of major factories and enterprises across the country overfulfilled their national economy plan, taking the country as a whole. The gross industrial output swelled, the foundation of the self-supporting national economy gained in scope and strength and the major projects of the five-year plan for the development of national science and technology ending in 2007 were carried out.
The educational field witnessed progress in modernizing the educational institutions at all levels and improving the quality of education and signal successes in the fields of public health, culture and arts and sports.
The WPK set a grandiose target to open up without fail the gate of a great prosperous powerful nation in 2012, the centenary of birth of the President, by staging a general offensive from this year.
The main tasks before the economic field this year is to bolster the pilot sectors, basic industries of the national economy, giving top priority to the work for ensuring the increase of the country's defence capability true to the Party's line of economic construction in the era of Songun, and thus ensure the advance in the building of an economic power. It is also the main thrust of the field to continue vigorously pushing forward the technological updating of the national economy and, at the same time, decisively solve the problems of food and consumer goods on the people's living-first principle in order to substantially improve the people's living standard.
We will make a fresh leap forward and progress in all fields under the uplifted militant slogan of the Party "Glorify This Year of the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the DPRK as a Year of Historical Turn Which Will Go Down in the History of the Country!", thus significantly boosting the gross industrial output value.
This year the Cabinet will channel all human and material resources of the country into bolstering the fields of power, coal and metal industries and railway transportation, taking a firm hold on the pilot sectors, basic industrial fields of the national economy, as the lifeline of the socialist economic construction.
The Cabinet will rejuvenate the geological prospecting and the production at key industries including mining, machine-building, chemical and building materials industries and forestry and accelerate the technological updating on the basis of the existing foundation.
It is an important task before the Cabinet this year, the 60th anniversary of the DPRK, to abide by the people's living-first principle.
We will comprehensively introduce high-yielding rice and maize seeds on the principle of the right crop on the right soil and the proper crop in the right season, widely disseminate and generalize the advanced agro-technique and farming methods and intensify the self-farming movement, true to the Party's policy of agricultural revolution to make great progress in solving the people's problem of food at any cost this year.
We will vigorously push forward the waterway projects and land development and let all the fields of national economy produce and ensure farming materials in a responsible manner and encourage the whole country to render labor and material assistance to rural areas.
We will boost the production of meat, eggs and aquatic products and substantially operate the existing fish breeding centers to enable the people to fully benefit from them.
We will mass-produce quality consumer goods by operating the light industrial factories in full capacity and continue pushing forward the work to build new production bases.
We will spruce up the hospitals at different levels as required by the new century, improve the production and supply of medicines and medical apparatus and make sure that all the popular policies including the system of social insurance, the system of accommodating working people at sanatoria and rest homes and the system of preferential treatment of disabled soldiers are properly enforced.
We will speed up the construction of monumental edifices of the times, organize and undertake the construction of Pyongyang City in a bold and big way and build more houses in urban and rural areas.
From this year we will start implementing the new five-year plan for the development of national science and technology ending in 2012.
We will systematically increase the state investment in this field and let the scientists and technicians increase their responsibility and role to successfully carry out the assignments under the plan and thus put the country's science and technology on an advanced level in the shortest possible period.
For the present, we will make sure that all the fields of national economy carry out the first-year tasks of the plan without fail this year, establish the production system based on science and technology at the factories and enterprises and, at the same time, exert state efforts for the development of the IT industry.
We will thoroughly establish Juche in external economic relations with other countries, energetically expand the export of goods of the second- and third-stage processing by use of the locally available resources and on the basis of indigenous technology and conduct diversified and multilateral trade.
It is an important task facing the Cabinet to steadily improve the guidance and administration of the socialist economic management and round off it our own way. It is also an issue of key importance as it awaits an urgent solution in building an economic power.
It is necessary to concentrate the economic work on the Cabinet and develop the nation's economy under a long-term plan on the basis of a scientific strategy.
We will continue directing big efforts to building socialist culture to train a large number of able intellectuals capable of doing their shares in building a great prosperous powerful nation this year, too. We will, at the same time, see to it that more literary and art works reflecting the stirring reality in the era of Songun are created and efforts are focused on the preparations for exalting the honor of the country by winning gold medals in the 29th Olympics.
The reporter called upon all officials to stand in the van of the drive for building an economic power and give the fullest play to the mental and creative power of the producer masses and thus work fresh miracles and innovations in production and construction.
He underscored the need for all the people to work hard to greet the 60th anniversary of the DPRK with shining victories and bring earlier the day when a great prosperous powerful socialist nation will appear on this land that remains highly dignified thanks to Songun.
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