Now that the whole country is pulsating with excitement at great transformation and fresh hope, an inauguration ceremony of the regional-industry factories and leisure complex, newly built in Jongphyong County for the Regional Development 20×10 Policy, took place with splendour on December 24.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, attended the inauguration ceremony.

When he arrived at the venue for the ceremony, the participants raised deafening cheers with reverence for the great leader of the people.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un received a report on the completion of the project from the commanding officer of the military unit involved in the construction of the regional-industry factories and leisure complex in the county.

Present at the ceremony were members of the central leadership body of the WPK, commanding officers of the large combined units of the Korean People's Army, officials and working people in South Hamgyong Province and Jongphyong County, soldier-builders and employees of the regional-industry factories and leisure complex.

Ri Il Hwan, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, addressed the ceremony.

Saying the joy of great transformation in the new era of regional construction has also come to Jongphyong County, the speaker warmly congratulated the county citizens on the better life and new culture they will lead with the inauguration of modern regional-industry factories and leisure complex.

Thanks to the noble intention and sincerity of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un that the people's wish is the wish of the Party and the struggle for bringing wellbeing earlier to the people should be intensified nonstop, the construction of regional light industrial factories, the level of which are as good as those in the capital city, has been pushed forward at the state expense, and the regional-industry factories, which are more advanced than those built last year, have appeared in 20 cities and counties across the country, he said.

He noted that the leisure complex in the county is a valuable creation embodying the high intention of Kim Jong Un to bring about a sure change in the cultural progress of the regions by providing the conditions for enjoying advanced civilization not only in material life but also in all aspects of mental and cultural life.

The speaker expressed belief that the officers and men of the construction units, who successfully built the regional-industry factories and leisure complex in Jongphyong County in the high revolutionary spirit peculiar to the People's Army remaining absolutely loyal to the order of the Party and earnest in fulfilling its desire, would perform brilliant feats in every site of the further expanded regional construction under the uplifted glorious colors of theirs.

Kim Jong Un unveiled the monument to the inauguration of the regional-industry factories and leisure complex.

Lovely children presented him with bouquets of fragrant flowers reflecting the unanimous gratitude of the county citizens.

Kim Jong Un met some working people in the county and commanding officers of the construction units who participated in the inauguration ceremony, and shook hands with them one by one as a token of his warm encouragement.

He went round the leisure complex.

Going round various parts of the library and the general commercial district, he stressed the need to run and manage the complex effectively as befitting its characteristics as a public leisure centre for improving the regional cultures of life, study and commerce and training the regional citizens to be pioneers and creators of new culture.

Saying that the true significance of the regional revolution lies in raising the people's ideological consciousness and cultural level to the one corresponding to the new era and continuously setting higher goals and levels of creation, he clarified a series of tasks related to the next year's construction of leisure complexes in 20 cities and counties.

Then he visited the regional-industry factories.

There was an inauguration ceremony.

Kim Jong Un cut the inauguration tape.

He visited the Jongphyong County Foodstuff Factory.

When deciding on the Regional Development 20×10 Policy, there were certainly some individuals being skeptical about its implementation even among cadres as the plan for regional development was largest ever in its scale, but not only those cadres but also all our people are now convinced of the validity of the Party policy, practical power for its implementation and its bright future, witnessing the domains of construction further expanding with each passing year and the inauguration season which has come without fail this year like last year.

He said that the popular masses' deeper trust in the Party and absolute confidence in its policy are, indeed, the greatest success registered in the struggle of two years for bringing about fundamental changes in the regions.

He earnestly requested the officials and employees of the regional-industry factories to regard the people's demands and evaluation as an absolute criterion and conduct management and operation in a responsible manner so as to keep the production going at a high rate.

He sincerely hoped that the new leisure complex and regional-industry factories in the county would make a substantial contribution to the economic development of the county and improvement of the living standards of its citizens.