The completion of the large power station which represents another shining victory won in the drive to build a thriving nation made it possible to solve the acute electricity shortage of the country and contribute to the economic development and the improvement of the standard of people's living.

A ceremony for its completion took place on Thursday.

Attending the ceremony were Premier Choe Yong Rim, Choe Ryong Hae, chief secretary of the North Hwanghae Provincial Committee of the Workers' Party Korea, Ho Thaek, minister of Electric Power Industry, Tong Jong Ho, minister of Construction and Building Materials Industry, and Pae Tal Jun, minister of State Construction Control.

A congratulatory letter sent by the Central Committee of the WPK to the builders and their helpers who performed shining labor feats in the construction of the power station was conveyed.

The WPK Central Committee said in the letter that the completion of the power station represents a shining victory of the far-reaching plan of President Kim Il Sung for gigantic nature transformation and the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il and a brilliant fruition of the inexhaustible mental power of the people in the province and all the builders and their helpers intensely loyal to the Party and the leader.

By completing the construction of the power station, the builders and their helpers powerfully demonstrated the indomitable mental power of the Korean people who are ready to flatten even a mountain and empty a sea if requested by the Party and clearly proved that no force on earth can block the advance for a great surge of the Korean people dashing ahead like the wind towards a thriving nation, single-mindedly rallied around the Party, the letter noted.

The WPK Central Committee in the letter highly praised the builders of the power station and their helpers for having built one more great structure in the era of the WPK by displaying popular heroism and matchless sacrificing spirit true to the behests of the President and a far-reaching plan of the Party for gigantic nature transformation.

Choe Ryong Hae made a speech for the occasion to be followed by speeches.