The first leg of his guidance was the newly-built Sanitary Goods Branch Factory at the December 7 Factory.

After being briefed on the technical specification of the branch factory, he went round production processes furnished with cutting-edge equipment to learn in detail about its construction and production there.

Watching the work sites where cultured practices are ensured in production and hygiene on a high level and the compound of the factory that looks like a park, he highly praised its employees for having spruced up well the inside and outside of the factory. He said that the socialist homeland is turning into a land of bliss for people as the days go by as the soldier culture created in the era of Songun is kept in fuller bloom.

The officials, workers and technicians of the branch factory with a high capacity have been able to bring about a fresh boost in the production of sanitary goods by keeping production going at a high rate because they have waged a dynamic drive for introducing new technology true to the Party's idea of pushing back the frontiers of the latest science and technology while planting one's foot on one's ground and looking at the world, he noted, adding that this signal success clearly demonstrates the validity and vitality of the Party's policy of regarding science and technology as the lifeline for building an economic power.

He advanced the tasks to be carried out by the factory.

He underlined the need for the branch factory to properly work out management and business strategies and put production on a scientific basis as required by the principle of profitability so as to systematically cut down the norm of materials consumption per unit and increase the supply of quality sanitary goods to the people.

The second leg of his guidance was the Women's Hosiery Shop newly built at the Pyongyang Hosiery Factory.

After being briefed on the history of the factory in the room devoted to its history, he went round the weaving site, the processing site and the goods sample room to acquaint himself in detail with the construction and technological equipment and the production there.

He set forth the tasks facing the factory.

It is the firm determination and will of the WPK to provide the people with better living conditions, he said, underscoring the need to continue directing big efforts to the production to bring about a new turn in settling the issue of hosiery. To this end, it is necessary to steadily boost the production capacity and bring it to the world's level, he added.

He earnestly called upon the workers of the Pyongyang Hosiery Factory to boost the production and supply of quality hosiery in an effort to provide the people with richer and highly civilized living conditions as early as possible.

The next leg of his guidance was the newly built Pothonggang Department Store.

He went round the inside and outside of the store for hours to acquaint himself in detail with its construction and goods on display there.

He underlined the need to build in different parts of the country more service centers for people such as modern shops and restaurants which look like the Pothonggang Department Store so as to win the admiration of even posterity.

He set forth important tasks which would serve as guidelines for improving service.

Noting that the essence of socialist commerce lies in that all its activities are conducted to serve the people from A to Z, he underscored the need for the field of commerce to supply goods from the stand of being responsible for the people's living and sell in time goods badly needed by the people to the convenience in their life.

He expressed great expectation and belief that all service workers of the department store would bring a decisive turn in goods supply and thus make a positive contribution to giving fuller play to the advantages of the socialist system in the DPRK centered on the popular masses.

He was accompanied by Kim Kyong Hui, member of the Political Bureau and department director of the C.C., the WPK, Jang Song Thaek, alternate member of the Political Bureau of the C.C., the WPK and vice-chairman of the National Defence Commission, and Mun Kyong Dok, alternate member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the C.C., the WPK and chief secretary of the Pyongyang City Committee of the WPK.