First Short Course for Chief Secretaries of City and County Party Committees Opens
General Secretary of WPK Kim Jong Un Makes Opening Address
Pyongyang, March 4 (KCNA) — The first short course for chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees was held at the conference hall of the office building of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) on March 3 at a time when the grand struggle is being waged to achieve the comprehensive development of our own-style socialism along the path of sure victory indicated by the ever-victorious WPK.
The short course for chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees, the first of its kind in the history of our Party, comes to be an important occasion to consolidate the fighting efficiency of the entire Party and develop local economy and improve the people’s standard of living by remarkably enhancing the function and role of the city and county Party organizations which are chiefly responsible for implementing the Party’s idea of attaching importance to cities and counties and line on strengthening them.
Attending the course were chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees across the country, chief secretaries of the provincial Party committees and officials of relevant departments of the provincial Party committees.
Also present there were secretaries of the Party Central Committee, directors and first vice-directors of its relevant departments and its officials related with the local Party work.
Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the WPK, appeared at the hall to guide the first short course for chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees.
All the participants in the course raised stormy cheers of “hurrah!”, full of great emotion that they came to receive precious instructions of the General Secretary at the supreme staff of the Korean revolution which sheds noble light as the symbol of great victory and glory in the hearts of the Party members and other people across the country.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made an opening address.
Kim Jong Un in the address said that after the dissemination of the spirit of the 8th Party Congress and the 2nd Plenary Meeting of the 8th Party Central Committee, the short course for chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees was organized before everything else with special importance attached to the significance of renovating the city and county Party work in shifting all the fronts of the socialist construction over to a new stage of development and promoting the balanced and simultaneous development throughout the country.
He referred to the importance of city and county, which are the lowest-level guidance and executive units for the implementation of our Party’s policies, regional bases directing the rural and local economy and powerful fortresses supporting the comprehensive development of the country, and to the status of the city and county Party committees.
Noting that our socialist construction that entered on a new phase urges for a strong traction power to be provided to push ahead with the development of cities and counties on a full-scale, he said that the role of chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees, who are deputies of the Party Central Committee, is very important in making the city and county Party organizations steer the development of their regions.
The chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees are the hard core of our Party in charge of regional bases of the socialist construction and the field political workers who are shouldering the heavy responsibilities of taking care of people while living nearest to them, he said, stressing that the decisions of the Party congress can be thoroughly implemented and our own-style socialism develop and advance rapidly only when the chief secretaries bring about fundamental changes in their work with revolutionary political awareness.
He said that as the 8th Party Congress illuminated important policy orientations for developing cities and counties across the country in an independent and many-sided way, now everything depends on strenuous efforts and role of the chief secretaries, adding that under the present situation, the Party Central Committee is determined to enhance the level of their working ability and improve their style of work above all to provide a new turning point in the development of cities and counties and specially prepared the short course with much care.
He said that through the course, the chief secretaries should review their overall work before the Party Central Committee and study in a positive, responsible and earnest manner to find a clear way for revitalizing their cities and counties while exchanging and sharing good experiences with correct recognition of the importance of strengthening cities and counties and political needs.
He stressed that the chief secretaries should deeply bear in mind the heavy duty and sense of responsibility that they are in charge of important strategic fortresses and bases of the Party and the state and should earnestly study how to live up to the demand and great expectation of the people by turning the areas in their charge into socialist paradise and how to turn them into iron fortress, inviolable cornerstone impregnably defending the Party and the state.
He stressed that the chief secretaries should deeply grasp the principles and methods of the Juche-oriented Party work, the embodiment of the people-first principle, and bear in mind the methodologies one by one for bringing about decisive turn in the work of the city and county Party committees one after another with a view to substantially consolidate their political and practical qualifications and ability to lead their regions.
Let’s Make Devoted Efforts for Strengthening Party Work and Developing Cities and Counties
Second-day sitting of First Short Course for Chief Secretaries of City and County Party Committees Held
General Secretary of WPK Kim Jong Un Makes Important Concluding Speech
Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) — The first short course for chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees, the one of great significance in thoroughly implementing the Party’s line on and policy of strengthening cities and counties as required by a new development stage of the socialist construction, continued on March 4.
The respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un made an important concluding speech.
Saying that improving the work of the city and county Party committees now presents itself as a more important issue in strengthening the entire Party, improving its leadership function and role and accelerating the development of cities and counties, he stressed that the overall work of the Party and the state can go well and the overall development of our own-style socialism be promoted only when the city and county Party committees across the country fulfill their missions and role.
He said that the Party Central Committee is the supreme General Staff of the Korean revolution, the city and county Party committees come to be the political general staff organizing and guiding every work in their areas, and thereby success of the work of the city and county Party committees holding such important position entirely depends on the ability and activity of their chief secretaries.
He set forth important tasks and ways for enhancing the role of chief secretaries in intensifying the Party work and developing cities and counties.
He, first of all, underscored the need to direct efforts into the Party’s internal work to firmly cement our revolutionary position, class position.
Noting that the Party’s internal work is an important part of the Party work for strengthening the Party organizationally and ideologically, training the officials and Party members to be fighters faithful to the Party and revolution and rallying all the people close around the Party to vigorously stimulate them to implement the Party’s policy, he said that the chief secretaries should keep up the Party’s internal work as iron rule and main task whatever difficulties.
Saying that special efforts should be directed into building up the ranks of cadres, he set forth detailed tasks for forming the ranks of cadres with elite ones devotedly defending the leader and the Party by strictly observing the Party principles, revolutionary principles in the personnel administration and, to this end, improving the personnel administration system in an innovative way.
He stressed the need to conduct the work of increasing Party membership and control over the Party ranks with responsibility, strengthen basic Party organizations and effectively organize and guide the Party life of officials and Party members.
He said that the chief secretaries should bear in mind the intention of the Party Central Committee which attaches importance to basic Party organizations, turn the work with primary Party committees and Party cells into the key concern of the city and county Party committees and thus lead well the basic Party organizations to improve their work as required by the developing reality.
He said that the city and county Party committees should let the basic Party organizations organize the organizational and ideological life of Party members like meeting for review of their life and study of the Party’s line and policies in a regular and effective way, steadily improve the method of conducting Party meetings and thus raise the level of the Party life of officials and Party members, as it is a main link in the chain of the Party work and a guarantee for consolidating the Party ranks organizationally and ideologically to intensify the Party life.
He stressed the need in particular to intensify the study of the newly-amended Rules of the Party and the Descriptions of the Rules of the Party, establish the habit of thoroughly observing the rules within the entire Party and orient the organization of and guidance to the Party life towards the implementation of the decisions made at the Party congress.
Referring to the importance of consolidating the class position in the rural communities by strengthening the rural Party work, he added that the city and county Party Committees should build up the ranks of rural junior officials like secretaries of ri Party committees and management board chairpersons and strengthen the Party guidance to enhance their role and sense of responsibility.
He noted that the chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees should not lay stress only on the farming in their guidance to rural areas, but put emphasis on propelling the three revolutions and boost the work of ri Party committees.
He stressed that the city and county Party organizations should make the revolutionary and sound way of life indomitably prevail in the society and make the masses turn the struggle for suppressing and eradicating anti- and non-socialist practices into the work of their own by ceaselessly seeking and applying the effective methods of educating and awakening them.
Noting that the chief secretaries should strengthen the guidance to and control over departments of the city and county Party committees to correctly organize and conduct every work of cities and counties as intended by the Party Central Committee and should inspire officials, Party members and other working people to successfully carry out the revolutionary tasks facing their cities and counties, he set forth concrete tasks to do so.
Saying that the chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees should decisively enhance their political and practical qualifications and work ability and steadily improve their style of work and personality as they are Party officials chiefly responsible for the overall work of relevant areas, including politics, economy, military affairs and culture, he went on:
The most important criterion for the chief secretaries, the chief delegates of the Party Central Committee, is the high Party spirit and political and practical qualifications.
The chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees should become masters well versed in the Party’s policies by making strenuous and purposeful efforts to have a thorough knowledge of the idea and line of the Party, and make the whole process of organizing and reviewing the work the educational one of implanting the Party’s policies in the mind of officials as their faith.
At the same time, they should strive to be conversant with the actual affairs related to the Party work and acquire many-sided knowledge as well as high cultural attainments.
In the present times when we are going to develop all the cities and counties across the country in an independent and many-sided way, the qualifications of chief secretaries precisely mean the level of development of their cities and counties.
The chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees should make energetic and strenuous efforts not only to be well versed in the Party’s policies and actual affairs related to the Party work but to acquire advanced technologies and knowledge about agriculture, industry, architecture, land management, education, public health and other fields, all of which are directly connected with the development of their cities and counties.
Noting that the people actually perceive the dignity and prestige of the Party Central Committee and the love and trust of the mother Party through the county Party committees, through the working method and style of their chief secretaries in particular, Kim Jong Un repeatedly stressed the need for the chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees to definitely improve their working method, style and manner.
He said it is the most general and basic requirements for making our Party maintain its mode of existence and revolutionary Party discipline and realizing the people-first politics that the county Party committees should become the parents’ home where the people truly open their hearts and the ones which take root deep among the people and that chief secretaries should become masters of county economy.
Severely pointing out that the practices devoid of loyalty to the Party and revolution, devotion to the people, respect for comrades and sincere attitude towards work are revealing in the work and life of some chief secretaries, he cleared up the ideological origin of such practices.
He instructed that the chief secretaries should temper and thoroughly cultivate themselves in a revolutionary way and become examples of cadres and Party members in displaying the loyalty to the Party and revolution.
He said that the chief secretaries should keep themselves in grasping and applying the proper method of Party work for rousing Party organizations and members to action and giving priority to political work and educate their subordinate officials with practical examples.
Kim Jong Un underscored the need for the chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees to apply efficient methods of mass work.
He said that they should naturally become standard-bearers and models in applying our Party’s popular character and people-first politics, calling on them to become honest Party officials who prioritize the work for tackling the difficulties in the people’s living, treat everyone like their own parents and children, read their minds from their eyes, look and words and take due measures.
And he said that the chief secretaries should find themselves among the masses to depend on them, stimulate their mental power and wisdom and thus achieve successes in the work as instructed by our Party’s traditional methods of mass work.
He said that the chief secretaries should become examples for the masses in all aspects including speaking, doing and moral features and to this end, respect their subordinate officials and people anywhere and anytime and honor revolutionary forerunners, not regarding themselves as the privileged.
He noted that the chief secretaries should become examples in observing the proprieties, always bearing in mind the dignity and prestige of the Party Central Committee, which dispatched them, and the revolutionary climate of the Party.
Saying that they should not abuse power and indulge in bureaucracy, irregularities and corruption but be honest in their work and life, he stressed the need for them to remain upright before the Party and the people, keep their families and relatives from seeking after selfish interests and hold under strict control all the officials in their counties not to abuse their power and indulge in bureaucracy, irregularities and corruption.
Noting that the chief secretaries should bring clear and actual results in the economic work of their cities and counties and improvement of the people’s living standard by scrupulously planning and guiding the work for implementing the tasks set forth at the 8th Party Congress and the 2nd Plenary Meeting of the 8th Party Central Committee, he continued:
The primary economic task for the chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees is to decisively increase the agricultural production.
They should always attach importance to vigorously rousing agricultural officials and workers to the struggle for carrying out the Party’s agricultural policy and concentrate the efforts of the Party on it.
They should raise strong demands to make the cooperative farm management committees of their cities and counties map out farming plans in a scientific and detailed way in conformity with their regional characters and thoroughly carry them out, and help the management committees to substantially guide the farming of their cities and counties by supporting their authority in the work.
In particular, it is necessary to wage an intensive struggle for breaking the habit of talking big deeply rooted down in the agricultural field.
Saying that it is a duty proper to the chief secretaries to spruce up their counties and make their residents lead a happy life, he stressed that they should map out a realistic plan for sprucing up their cities, county seats and rural villages to be appropriate to the civilization level of the times and rely on their own skilled working forces and construction equipment in dynamically forwarding the local construction.
He called for taking the advantages of their own natural and geographical conditions to revitalize local industrial establishments and increase the production of consumer goods and improving the people’s living standard by massively rearing the stock including grass-eating domestic animals and breeding fishes.
He told the chief secretaries about the detailed ways for working out correct strategy to develop their cities and counties and improve the people’s living standard and tapping their economic foundations and potentials to the maximum.
He stressed that the chief secretaries shouldering the heaviest tasks in upholding our great people should certainly become genuine revolutionaries and communists and to this end, they should make ceaseless efforts for sharing the idea, intention and will with the Party Central Committee.
He expressed belief that the short course would be an occasion for the chief secretaries to further develop their discrimination and uplift their political consciousness and revolutionary zeal and thereby, they would take a fresh stride in turning their cities and counties into rich and civilized socialist paradises.
Noting that they should bear in mind that this year, too, we are faced with gigantic tasks, conditions are unfavorable and our people’s expectation for our Party and their desire are very great than ever before, he added that it is high time to thoroughly maintain the correct line set forth by the Party Central Committee and realize the correct political leadership. That is why the responsibilities placed on the chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees are very heavy yet important, he stressed again and again.
He ardently called upon the chief secretaries, who are full of surging excitement and fresh confidence, to join efforts to fight for our great Party and our great people.
Let’s Powerfully Propel Construction of Our Own-style Socialism by Enhancing Roles of City and County Party Organizations
First Short Course for Chief Secretaries of City and County Party Committees Closes with Fourth-day sitting
General Secretary of WPK Kim Jong Un Makes Closing Address
Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) — The first short course for chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees, which made a new milestone for the strengthening of the city and county Party committees, renovation of the Party work and regional development in the history of our glorious Party, was closed with the fourth-day sitting on March 6.
Kim Jong Un made a closing address to the first short course for chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees.
Noting that our Party Central Committee attached great importance to the short course with big expectation for the role of the chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees in decisively shifting the socialist construction onto the next stage, he said that through the short course, practical experience for equipping, awakening and inspiring them once again and improving and intensifying the work of the city and county Party committees was accumulated.
He highly appreciated that the chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees across the country participated in a meeting and short course with elated political enthusiasm, cogitation and positive attitude, unanimously bearing deep in their minds the intention of the Party Central Committee.
Saying the chief secretaries should always be aware that officials, Party members and other working people in their cities and counties will keep an eye of greater expectation on them who come back after participating in the first short course, the first of its kind in the history of our Party, he stressed that the solemn pledge taken by the chief secretaries is an oath they swore before the people of their counties and a supreme task to be carried out in any case without fail.
He said that all the chief secretaries should display great courage, strenuous spirit, inexhaustible enthusiasm and devotion hundreds times stronger than ever before to determinedly strive hard with high ideal and great desire for turning their regions into the fortresses of single-hearted unity firmly linked with the Party Central Committee in idea and intention and into bases of happiness where the people enjoy actual wellbeing and civilization.
He called upon the chief secretaries to fulfill their responsibility and role in renovating the Party work and developing their cities and counties in strict accordance with the strategic and tactical policies and tasks which were set forth at the historic Party congress and the plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee and detailed in the short course.
He asked all the chief secretaries to conduct a powerful organizational and political work for implementing the Party’s policies with a fresh view and attitude that they are newly appointed and start their work from now, play the role of steering the development of cities and counties well and thus bring about clear changes and successes to be welcomed and realized by the people.
Saying that the chief secretaries should possess of the spirit of unconditionally serving the people and the organizing ability and drive, practical capability and noble moral traits appropriate for officials who are in charge of regional bases of socialist construction, he warmly called upon them to make every possible effort to record in history the decisions made at the 8th Party Congress as the ones successfully implemented.
Enthusiastically appealing to them to become real servants accepted by the people on the road of serving our great people, he declared the first short course for chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees closed.
Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, had a photo session with chief secretaries of the provincial, city and county Party committees, who participated in the first short course for chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees, at the office building of the Party Central Committee on March 6,2021.
From Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)
