Young Korean people have shown growing enthusiasm for volunteering to work at major units of socialist construction since the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

Those in Pyongyang Municipality volunteered for construction brigades, road facility management stations and other difficult and labour-consuming sectors.

Their example was followed by many others in different parts of the country, including South and North Phyongan, North Hwanghae and South Hamgyong provinces.

With the determination to make their native villages more beautiful, they volunteered to work at county construction brigades, raw materials base stations of newly-built regional-industry factories, etc.

Graduates of Sinuiju Teachers Training College and Sinuiju Cha Kwang Su University of Education offered to work at schools and branch schools in remote mountain villages.

Meanwhile, young people in the key industry sectors of the national economy are in the vanguard of the efforts to fulfil their national economic plans out of the mind to glorify this year, the first year of the new five-year plan set forth at the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, with proud labour achievements.

Young employees at the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex increased production by developing and applying a rational furnace operating method according to technical indices of fuels, while conducting a brisk socialist emulation drive among workshops and among shifts in order to tap even a ton of more molten iron.

Those at the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex are waging a vigorous mass technical innovation movement to increase productivity while saving fuel and raw materials as much as possible.

Members of the Kim Kwang Chol Youth Shock Brigade of the Ryongdung Coal Mine, who carried out their tunnelling plan for the first half of the year in early February, are now creating new norms and new records through continuous drilling and blasting in the pits.

Those of the Cha Kwang Su Youth Shock Brigade of the Tukjang Youth Coal Mine are also conducting such mass movements as those of carrying out one more blasting and doing one more shift, thereby implementing their daily tunnelling plan over 1.8 times on average.

In the textile industry sector, too, more and more young employees are fulfilling their yearly and first-half yearly plans.

By keeping pace with young people in the industrial sector, those in the agricultural sector are devoting themselves in their workplaces.

Young agricultural workers of the Chongsan Farm in Kangso District secured hundreds of tons of homemade manure through a mass innovation campaign to improve the fertility of soil and young employees of the Sariwon Tractor Parts Factory have achieved good results in production.

The feats being performed by young people across the country are recorded as valuable footprints of patriotism in the advance towards national prosperity.