When the whole country is pulsating with great transformation and fresh hope, an inauguration ceremony of the regional-industry factories and leisure complex 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 ceremony.

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

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 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 residents on having come to lead a better life and new culture with the completion of modern regional-industry factories and leisure complex.

Thanks to the noble intention and sincerity of Comrade Kim Jong Un that the people's long-cherished desire is the long-cherished wish of the Party and the struggle for bringing wellbeing earlier to the people should be intensified nonstop, the construction of regional light-industry factories, which are as good as those in the capital city, has been pushed forward at 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 wonderfully built the regional-industry factories and leisure complex in Jongphyong County in the high revolutionary spirit peculiar to the KPA remaining absolutely loyal to the order of the Party and devoted to fulfilling its long-cherished wish, would perform brilliant feats in every site of the further expanded regional construction under their uplifted glorious colours.

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 people.

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 warm encouragement.

He went round the leisure complex.

Going round the library and various places of the shopping mall, he stressed the need to run and manage the complex effectively in conformity with its characteristics as a public leisure centre for improving the regional cultures of life, study and commerce and training the local people to be pioneers and creators of new culture.

Saying that the true significance of the regional revolution lies in raising the people's level of ideological consciousness and culture 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 construction of leisure complexes to be carried out in 20 cities and counties next year.

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.

He said: When deciding on the Regional Development 20×10 Policy, there were certainly those who were sceptical about its implementation even among cadres as the plan for regional development was largest ever in scale, but not only those cadres but also all our people are now convinced of the validity of the Party policy, its practical executive ability and bright prospects as they witness the domains of construction further expanding and intensifying with each passing year and the inauguration season which has come without fail this year, too, in the wake of last year.

I think the greatest success we have made through the struggle of two years for bringing about fundamental changes of the regions is that the masses of the people have come to have deeper trust in the Party and absolute confidence in its policy.

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 the improvement of the living standards of the local people.