First Precious Entities of Ten-year Revolution of
WPK Ushering in Fresh Era of Regional Rejuvenation Inauguration Ceremony of Regional-Industry Factories in Songchon County Takes Place with

Splendor

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Attends
Inauguration Ceremony and Makes Important Speech

Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- A series of epochal entities symbolizing thenew era of national rejuvenation is being created across the DPRK thanks to theoutstanding idea and seasoned leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea whichleads the Korean revolution only to victory under the uplifted banner of the people-
first principle. The first-year task for the WPK's Regional Development 20×10 Policy
for the rapid improvement of the regional people's material and cultural living
standards has been carried out and, thereby, scores of modern regional-industry
factories have been splendidly built in 20 cities and counties throughout the country.
All the officers and men of the construction regiments who turned out true to the
decisions of the 19th Enlarged Meeting of the Political Bureau of the 8th WPK
Central Committee and the order of the chairman of the Central Military Commission
of the WPK performed distinguished feats in building the Korean-style modern
regional-industry factories in conformity with the regional features and at a higher
level of putting the production on an automated and scientific basis of higher level in
only 290-odd days since the beginning of the regional-industry revolution with the spirit of unconditional execution and stubborn practical ability peculiar to the
revolutionary army.
The birth of the first precious entities of the ten-year drive for creation to be specially recorded in the sacred course of the development of the Juche revolution is a proud fruition of the noble revolutionary leadership for believing in the people as in Heaven and for devoted service for the people's wellbeing of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who sets it as the supreme principle of activities to promote the people’s wellbeing and realize their ideal and an encouraging event proving that a stirring annual when the regions change and prosper comes into reality.

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An inauguration ceremony of the regional-industry factories in Songchon County for
the Regional Development 20×10 Policy took place with splendor on December 20.
The venue of the ceremony was full of the boundless pride of the soldier-builders
who built the assets of prosperity on the site of glory, where they had a historic
ground-breaking ceremony to herald the start of the ten-year revolution, and the
emotion and joy of the working people in Songchon County who are to enjoy a new
civilization and new life of regional transformations under the loving care of the Party.
Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of
the State Affairs of the DPRK, attended the inauguration ceremony.
When the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue of the
inauguration ceremony amid the playing of welcome music, all the participants paid
the highest respect to the prominent leader of the revolution and the great leader of
the people who is ushering in a new era of epochal regional rejuvenation and a
glorious heyday of comprehensive national development on the land of the country,
regarding it as his lifelong mission to achieve the prosperity of the country and
promote the people's well-being and making untiring efforts.
Present at the ceremony were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of
the WPK Central Committee and other members of the Party central leadership
body, members of the non-permanent committees for promoting the Regional
Development 20×10 Policy at all levels, officials and working people in South
Phyongan Province and Songchon County and service personnel of the Korean
People's Army involved in the construction.
The national anthem of the DPRK was solemnly played.
Kim Jong Un made an important speech on the inauguration of the regional-
industry factories in Songchon County.
Saying that holding an inauguration ceremony of the first fruition after ten months at
the historic place where the beginning of the WPK's ten-year revolution was declared
is a significant work to confirm the real intention and prospect of our work, he stated
with pride that the erection of new entities in different regions of the country this year
which can be called the start of the ten-year revolution and an epitome of judging its
success or failure made the people have a sure understanding that the regions are
transforming and secured the motive force to promote the regional development
policy more scientifically and accurately on the basis of many-sided and rich
experience.

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He gave a comprehensive and cool analysis and estimation of the causes that the
regional-industry policy and the programme for the rural revolution in the past era
had not brought about due fruition contrary to the intention to improve the people's
living and the country's agriculture in all regions and the important issues to be
promptly rectified for the final solution of the rural question.
He stressed the need to unconditionally carry on the great annals in which 20 cities
and counties change every year and make greater and accurate stride for advance
while giving more priority to lessons and prospect than visible successes. He
clarified the principled issues and important tasks for pushing forward the
construction work in a revolutionary way in the new year for implementing the
regional development policy.
The WPK will further expand and intensify the regional development policy and the
programme for the rural revolution in the historic new era so that the people can
benefit from them even after 100 years, and will vigorously strive for more
successfully transforming even one of the regions, he said, ardently calling for
making courageous efforts to bring earlier the day when the beloved younger
generation and the people will enjoy a civilized and rich life in their transformed
native lands and prospering places.
Kim Jong Un cut the inauguration tape amid the stormy cheers of "Hurrah!" raised
by all the participants with the ardent reverence and absolute trust in the great Party
Central Committee.
Fireworks were displayed at the venue of the ceremony, which wrote the first page of
pride in the history of regional development in the new era, and many balloons
soared into the sky above Songchon.
With the great emotion, all the participants expressed their thanks to the great father
of the large socialist family who set the people-first principle as the eternal political
idea and steadfast political mode of the WPK and is devoting himself to the eternal
peace and happiness of the people across the country.
Kim Jong Un went round the regional-industry factories in Songchon County
together with the participants in the inauguration ceremony.
He went round the oil production room, soy sauce and bean paste production rooms,
chestnut-processing room, bread production room, drink production room, soap
production room, wood processing workteam and other production processes of

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foodstuff and daily necessities factories to learn in detail about the variety and quality
of the trial products.
Saying that regional-industry factories should direct primary efforts to improving the
quality of products, he added that they should make the maximum use of modern
production processes so as to produce a lot of popular goods and famous goods
with peculiar features of their regions and they would be evaluated by the inhabitants
in the county.
He called upon the newly-built regional-industry factories to create and expand the
climate of exchanging experience with each other, learning from other and fostering
the competitive development in the problems arising in their management such as
production activities and ensuring of quality and training of skilled workers.
Repeatedly stressing that the essence in the operation of modern regional-industry
factories is to normalize production and improve quality, he said that the county
Party committees should regard these two issues as important policy tasks and as
the work of the Party committees and conduct strong month review and take
measures to make sure that the policy on regional development set forth by the
Party makes a genuine contribution to the improvement of the material and cultural
life of the regional people and turns into the policy radically improving the efficiency
of regional development.
He set forth important tasks arising in the management activities of regional-industry
factories and the normalization of production, including the issue of increasing the
proportion of locally available raw and other materials and equipment, the issue of
establishing a strict system of product inspection, the issue of steadily improving the
level of modernization of production processes and the issue of thoroughly ensuring
convenience and profitability in packing goods.
Noting that it is our Party's strategy for building the state to consolidate the
foundation and build a higher tower on its basis by consolidating regions and it can
be said that every regional-industry factory now under construction is the criterion
showing our conscience, ideal, strenuous efforts and fighting spirit, he expressed
belief that all the officers and men of the construction regiment would continue to
fulfill their honourable mission as pioneers of transformations for the country and its
people and as defenders of happiness in the coming year, too, in the same spirit and
mettle in which they made the first breakthrough in the 10-year campaign for regional
rejuvenation.

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Going round the rooms preserving revolutionary relics and rooms dedicated to the
history and various production rooms at the foodstuff factory, daily necessities
factory and garment factory, the participants in the ceremony including members of
the Party central leadership body renewed their firm pledge to single-mindedly and
faithfully support the far-sighted plan of the Party Central Committee for regional
development, recollecting once again the journey of great devotion made by Kim
Jong Un for the radical development of regions and the improvement of the
material and cultural life of the people across the country.
The inauguration of the regional-industry factories in Songchon County built as the
first creation of regional rejuvenation under the energetic guidance of the great Party
Central Committee serves as a significant occasion in greatly encouraging the
patriotic struggle of the people across the country who are accelerating the historic
advance of comprehensive national rejuvenation unfolded by the 8th Party Congress
with confidence in the rosy future of the Juche cause and our future to be more
highly civilized. -0-