Making the rounds of garments, shoes, foodstuffs, domestic utensils, kitchen utensils, school things, goods for cultural use and daily use and other varieties of goods displayed in the exhibition, he acquainted himself in detail with varieties, quality and production of goods.

Seeing goods one by one for hours, he was greatly satisfied with the fact that officials and other working people of industrial establishments and various other production units contributed to the exhibition quality goods of diverse varieties including consumer goods produced in the spirit of devoted service to the people.

New innovative successes are being made in the field of light industry day by day, he noted, adding that this stirring reality is a clear proof of the validity and vitality of the Workers' Party of Korea's policy calling for devoting everything to improving the standard of people's living.

After going round the exhibition, he set forth on the spot the important tasks to serve as guidelines for further developing the light industry.

In order to further develop the light industry, it is necessary to further improve the production structure of the light industry as required by the developing reality and the daily growing need of the people and wage a more powerful drive to modernize the light industry, he said. It is also necessary to further develop the local industry and, at the same time, steadily step up the production of consumer goods in a massive movement.

As the validity and vitality of the Workers' Party of Korea's policy for improving the standard of people's living are being displayed through commercial service networks, the light industrial factories and other relevant units should produce and send goods to Pyongyang Department Store No. 1 and other department stores and shops on a regular basis with no goods out of stock, he said. Only when shop networks are stacked with quality goods of diverse varieties, our officials can claim they have successfully discharged their mission and duty as the servants of the people, he added.

He underlined the need to further improve the commercial service to meet the intrinsic demand of socialist commerce.

It is the firm determination and will of the Workers' Party of Korea to bring about an epochal turn in improving the standard of people's living and building a thriving country in 2012, the centenary of birth of President Kim Il Sung, he said, earnestly calling upon all the Party members and other working people to dynamically effect a great surge to proudly enter the grand April festival with labor gifts of loyalty to the country and the people.

He was accompanied by 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, Kim Ki Nam, member of the Political Bureau and secretary 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 NDC, Thae Jong Su and Choe Ryong Hae, alternate members of the Political Bureau and secretaries of the C.C., the WPK, and Pak Pong Ju, first vice department director of the C.C., the WPK.