First Quarterly Economic Plan Fulfilled in DPRK

The all-people advancing spirit for greeting the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea as the one of victors and glory is mounting in the DPRK with passing days.

The workers of the Sangwon Cement Complex recorded the highest monthly production results in January after the start of its operation for the new year. They registered high production results in February, too, and carried out the first quarterly plan ahead of schedule.

Amid the campaign for increased production and economy across the country, the first quarterly plan was carried out in metallurgical, chemical, electric power, coal mining, machine-building industry, railway transport and other major sectors and units of the national economy and the overall industrial output has grown considerably as compared with the same period of last year.

Workers in the key industrial sector are taking the lead in the overall national economy while remarkably increasing production.

The steadfast faith and iron will of officials and workers in the metallurgical industry were displayed at iron production bases and leading iron ore production bases full of the spirit of innovation.

The spirit of increased production was also displayed in the chemical industry, one of the two pillars of the self-supporting economy.

The electric power industry launched a drive to increase the production of electricity, the main power of the self-supporting economy. As a result, tens of millions of more kWh of electricity were produced in January alone across the country and the highest monthly production results were recorded in the past several decades.

More than ４００ reserve cutting faces have been secured this year throughout the Ministry of Coal Industry through the high-speed tunneling campaign in the coalfields across the country, thus providing a guarantee for increased production.

With a sense of responsibility for leading and hauling the overall economic sector, the officials and workers in the machine-building industry have increased production with high enthusiasm every day.

Officials and workers in the mining industry made strenuous efforts, true to the call of the Party to wage a dynamic drive for increased production and economy.

Officials and workers in the field of railway transport carried out their first quarterly freight transport plan and are striving to transport more freights in the same spirit.

Amid the mounting spirit of fresh innovation, bold creation and steady advance in the forestry sector, the first quarterly plan throughout the Ministry of Forestry was carried out ahead of schedule and more than ９０ percent of the annual timber production in mountain was carried out.

A movement for creating new standards and new records was launched in the building-materials industry to usher in a great heyday of construction.

The construction sector is seething with the spirit of making new miracles and creating new legendary tales.

The １２４th regiments of the Korean People’s Army are making uninterrupted innovations and successive leap forward in the construction projects for the new year after the grand inauguration ceremonies of regional-industry factories in ２０ cities and counties.

The construction of １０ ０００ flats at the third stage in the Hwasong area and a marine park for the people, the Kalma coastal tourist area, a world-famous tourist scenic spot in Myongsasimni of the east coastal area, is nearing completion. The project for building １０ ０００ flats at the fourth stage in the Hwasong area, the construction of a ４５０-hectare greenhouse farm and vegetable science research centre and the rural housing construction are progressing apace.

News about innovations is being successively heard in socialist farm fields thanks to the devoted efforts of the agricultural officials and workers to attain the goal of grain production without fail this year.

In the first ten days of the new year, millions of tons of self-sufficing manure was transported to farm fields and more than ２０ ０００km-long waterways were repaired and cleaned throughout the country up to mid-March. And preparations were made for the full supply of irrigation water.

The workers in the field of light industry carried out their first quarterly national economic plan.

The first quarterly seafood production plan was fulfilled across the country.

All the officials, Party members and other working people are putting spurs on the campaign for successive offensive towards the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, further ensuring the upturn of the national development through a brisk drive for miraculously increased production to implement the decisions of the Eleventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK, in the spirit of having carried out the first quarterly national economic plan.

Rodong Sinmun