Present there were leading officials of the party, power and economic bodies and working people's organizations, people from all walks of life and youth and students in local areas.

Reports and speeches were made there.

The reporters and speakers said that the general orientation of this year's drive is to launch a sweeping campaign to bring about a drastic turn in improving the people's standard of living through a high-pitched drive for effecting a great revolutionary surge, calling for channeling all efforts to translating the noble intention of the Party into reality.

They underscored the need for the factories in the light-industry sector to push ahead with their modernization and produce more quality consumer goods. They also called for operating the local-industry factories at full capacity and doing farm work well and sharply increasing the grain production by thoroughly implementing the Party's policy of agricultural revolution.

They stressed the need for the four vanguard sectors of the national economy to provide a sure guarantee for economic construction and improvement of the people's standard of living by making a great leap forward through an intensified drive for effecting a great revolutionary surge.

The machine plants place the production processes on a high level of CNC technology as required by the IT age and send more latest machines to different fields of national economy, they noted, and continued:

The people-oriented policies of the Party and the state, like giving free medical care and free education, should be enforced more successfully and socialist principles be strictly abided by in commodity circulation.

They called on all of them to closely unite around the headquarters of the revolution headed by General Secretary Kim Jong Il and make dynamic efforts to win victories in the building of a thriving nation and the revolutionary cause of Juche.