Attending the rallies were leading officials of local party, power and economic organs and working people's organizations, people from all walks of life and youth and students.

Read out there was the letter of the employees of the complex addressed to all other working people across the country.

Reporters and speakers said at the mass rallies that General Secretary Kim Jong Il's visit to the workers of the Chollima Steel Complex to kindle the torch for bringing about a new great revolutionary surge is stirring up the hearts of all the servicepersons and the people of the country all out in the advance in the new year and making the whole country seethe with the drive for creation and miracles.

They renewed their determination to make a leap forward on all fronts through a great revolutionary surge by fully displaying great mental power augmented in the crucible of the Songun revolution.

They called on the party members and all other working people to wage a high-pitched drive for bringing about a new great revolutionary surge across the country by fully displaying their mental power and thoroughly applying their own mode of struggle and creation and thus adorn a-hundred-year history of Kim Il Sung's Korea shining with the Juche era with the great victory of socialism of Korean style.