Groundbreaking Ceremony of Largest-ever
Greenhouse Farm and Vegetable Science
Research Centre Held with Splendor

Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- There started another important undertaking for
regional development to be specially recorded in the new era of great
transformations, when the people-first ideal of the Workers’ Party of Korea is being
comprehensively realized.
In December last year, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un attended the
inauguration ceremony of a modern country city in the Sinuiju area, whose looks had
undergone a radical change after eradicating the aftermath of the severe flooding. At
the ceremony he declared a grand new construction plan for greater regional change
and bestowed great favour of personally dispatching the construction workforce for
the project.
Thanks to the warm sincerity of the dear father, who is unfolding a brighter future in
the people’s cradle built on the road of his devoted efforts for the flood victims, a
largest-ever modern greenhouse farm and a vegetable science research base will be
built in Hadan-ri in Sinuiju, a gateway city in the country, and in Soho-ri in Uiju
County, as structures, symbolic of the lively and bold progress in regional
rejuvenation.
A groundbreaking ceremony of a 450-hectare greenhouse farm and vegetable
science research centre took place with splendour on February 10.
Officers and men of the Navy and Air Force units of the Korean People’s Army and
commanding officers and other members of the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock
Brigade to be involved in the undertaking for the gigantic regional transformation
lined up at the venue of the ceremony.
Kim Jong Un attended the ceremony.
When Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue, all the participants broke into enthusiastic
cheers in reflection of their highest tribute to the benevolent father of the great
socialist family, who has pioneered the unprecedented sacred revolution, called the
comprehensive regional development, of successfully achieving the long-cherished
desire of the people across the country, and is ushering in a new era of high
civilization and prosperity shining with the people’s laughter and the promotion of
their wellbeing.

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Pak Thae Song and Jo Yong Won, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau
of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, and other senior Party,
government and military officials were present at the ceremony together with the
builders.
Pak Thae Song, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, made the groundbreaking speech.
Noting that grand greenhouse farms on a modern, intensive and industrial footing
have been built one after another in the era of transformations led by the great Party,
and thereby a new path of improving the people’s living standards is being hewed
out, the premier said that the edifices of the times built in different parts of the
country are the crystallization of the ennobling desire and bold leadership activities of
the Party that orients everything towards providing the people with a more affluent
life and ushers in a golden age of construction, self-sustenance and self-respect
unprecedented in history.
Construction of the greenhouse farm, the fourth of its kind in recent years, is an
important state affair to be carried out thanks to the ennobling intentions of
Comrade Kim Jong Un to turn this island area, where only sandy dust floated by
the strong river wind, into a socialist paradise where the people will lead a highly
civilized and affluent life, he noted.
According to his plan and intentions, not only different types of vegetable
greenhouses, vegetable processing factory and storages but also a vegetable
science research centre, trial cultivation greenhouses, hundreds of flats, hostels and
neighbourhood-serving amenities will be built simultaneously here in this area vaster
than that of all the large-scale greenhouse farms built in recent years put together,
he said.
If the large-scale greenhouse farm which will be put on a scientific and IT footing is
built with the modern houses standing in rows showing the true picture of socialism
on the shore of the Amnok River as the background, this island area will enjoy fame
as a new model of regional development with its own strong potentials of
development and as a brilliant symbol of prosperity in our era, he stressed.
Noting that the current construction project is a link in the whole chain of the struggle
to turn Sinuiju into an advanced city which will vividly show and represent the
development and might of socialist Korea and an important political undertaking for
displaying the advantages of our Party’s policy on regional development, the premier
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thanks to the clear-cut policy of the construction revolution indicated by the great
Party, our strong conviction and indomitable fighting spirit and the army-people unity.
Kim Jong Un made a rallying speech.
The speech reads as follows:
Officers and soldiers of the Navy and Air Force units of the Korean People’s Army,
which are famed for their ardent spirit of patriotism and brilliant exploits,
Officers and other members of the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade with the
most honourable name,
I extend my warm encouragement to you, who have come to the important
construction site with a high ambition of playing a major role in implementing the
Party’s far-reaching plan.
As I have already clarified, our Party and government are planning to implement a
new, promising regional development project on the shore of this Amnok River,
where damage caused by a natural calamity was removed and a new socialist life
has settled.
The site for the construction of a large greenhouse farm, on which we are now
standing, will symbolize our cause of rejuvenating the whole country through a
continuous, accelerated struggle, and it will provide another clear picture of the
higher stage and processes of development of the regional and rural rejuvenation as
has been designed by our Party.
I take pride in launching this ambitious regional development project, yet I feel more
proud of the fact that I have entrusted the important task of carrying out this project
to our most faithful large combined units of the services of the revolutionary armed
forces and the youth brigade whose members are in a soaring spirit to wage an
unyielding struggle.
Wherever miraculous successes are achieved and legendary tales of construction
are created, I can see the officers and soldiers of the Navy and Air Force units. This
is by no means coincidental, and I believe it is an inevitable relationship between you
and me, as we always share purpose.
I am convinced that the officers and soldiers of our Navy and Air Force and the
officers and other members of the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade will give full
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pioneering spirit with great creations and transformations, and thus present the most
splendid and satisfactory structure to our country and people.
Comrades,
We are filled with confidence and courage great enough to change the times
because we believe in our own strength, and we have the army and young people
who are infinitely loyal to the Party’s leadership. And we are pushing our way
uninterruptedly towards a powerful country along the path that nobody else in the
world has ever trodden because our heroic army and young people are performing
feats of labour.
What you will build is a large-scale greenhouse farm, and yet what surpasses it by
far is the prestige of our dignified state, a beautiful life of our beloved people and a
lofty ideal we are going to achieve.
I pay high tribute to the days of creation, which you will glorify with vibrant youth and
enthusiasm, and the traces, which you will leave with your strenuous efforts
reflective of your ennobling spirit and vigorous steps.
Along with our ever-prospering times, the happy future of our parents and siblings
will always encourage you.
Let us all advance forward,
For the high prestige of our army and young people,
For the transformation of this region to be envied by the world,
For the eternal prosperity of our motherland!
When Kim Jong Un finished his rallying speech, all the builders raised the stormy
cheers of “Hurrah!” with the single-minded pledge of loyalty looking up with soaring
emotion to the great artist of creation and construction, who find all honours and
prides of the revolutionary Party in the people’s happiness and is bringing earlier the
comprehensive rejuvenation and realistic changes with his ardent spirit of serving the
people and grea