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Tasks and Ways Arising in Building an Economic Giant in 2016

     In his New Year’s Address in 2016, respected Marshal Kim Jong Un clearly elucidated the tasks and ways arising in building an economic giant.

     Respect Marshal Kim Jong Un said.

     “We should concentrate all our efforts on building an economic giant to bring about a fresh turn in developing the country’s economy and improving the people’s standard of living.”

     Kim Jong Un clearly elucidated the tasks for bringing about a fresh turn in improving people’s standard of living. First of all, the electric-power, coal-mining and metallurgical industries and the rail transport sector should advance dynamically in the vanguard of the general offensive to achieve breakthroughs for a turning point in building an economic giant.

     The problem of electricity should be resolved as an undertaking involving the whole Party and the whole state. The existing power stations should be kept in a good state of maintenance, bolstered up and run at full capacity to ensure maximum output of electric power and the work for boosting the country’s power-generating capacity should be promoted along with the efforts to ease the strain on electricity supply by making proactive use of natural energy.

     The sector of coal-mining industry should raise the fierce flames of an upsurge in production to ensure enough supply of coal for the thermal power stations and several sectors of the national economy.

     The state should take thoroughgoing measures to make certain that the sector of metallurgical industry receives adequate material supplies and the metallurgical factories expand the successes achieved in making their production Juche-based and modern.

     The rail transport sector should establish rigid discipline and increase effectiveness in organizing and controlling transport services to ensure regular operation of trains, and step up the modernization of railways.

     Next, a fresh turn should be brought about in the improvement of the people’s living conditions

     The Workers’ Party of Korea maintains the improvement of the people’s living conditions as the most important of the numerous state affairs.

     The crop farming, animal husbandry and fishing sectors should make innovations to effect a radical change in improving the people’s standard of living.

     The light industry sector should put its factories and enterprises on a highly modern footing, provide them with plenty of raw and other materials to keep their production going full steam and increase the number of world-famous products and commodities with a competitive edge.

     The construction sector should launch a general offensive to implement the Party’s construction policy and grand plan. By doing so, it should build important production facilities, educational and cultural institutions and dwelling houses on the highest possible level and at the fastest possible speed, so that they serve as standards and models of the times. In this way it can make sure that the great heyday of construction continues without letup.

     All the sectors of the national economy should set ambitious goals and maintain regular production by tapping every possible internal reserve and potentiality. They should also take it as an important policy-oriented requirement to improve product quality, ensure domestic production of equipment and rely on locally available raw and other materials, and make strenuous efforts to this end.

     The whole Party, the entire army and all the people should buckle down to the campaign to restore the forests of the country. The urban and rural areas, workplaces and villages should be kept spick and span, and positive measures should be taken to conserve the resources of the country and prevent air, river and sea pollution.

     Kim Jong Un clarified the ways for implementing the tasks arising in the economic development and the improving the people’s standard of living.

     First of all, it is imperative to solidify the foundations of a thriving country by dint of science and technology and, with them as the engine, achieve national prosperity.

     The scientific research sector should give priority to resolving the scientific and technological problems that arise in consolidating the might of the Juche-based industry, the socialist independent economy, and improving the people’s standard of living, and strive to push back the frontiers of science and technology. Factories, enterprises and cooperative farms should build science and technology diffusion rooms in a splendid fashion and put their operation on a regular basis, so as to ensure that all the working people learn modern science and technology. It is also necessary to establish a social climate of resolving the problems arising in reality on the strength of science and technology.

     Next, the Cabinet and other state and economic organs should decisively improve their economic planning and guidance.

     Leading economic officials should fully equip themselves with Party policy, work out plans of the economic work in an innovative way and give a strong push to it on the principle of developing all the sectors at an exponential speed by relying on the inexhaustible creative strength of the working people and by dint of modern science and technology. They should accurately identify the main link in the whole chain of economic development and concentrate efforts on it while revitalizing the overall economy, especially when the conditions are not favourable and many difficulties arise. They should be proactive in organizing and launching the work of establishing on a full scale our style of economic management method which embodies the Juche idea, thus giving full play to its advantages and vitality.

     Full of confidence and optimism in sure victory, the people in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea will make dynamic efforts as the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un stated in his New Year’s Address to bring about a new leap in economic development and the improving of people’s living standard.