Reports were made at the meetings to be followed by oath-taking speeches.

Reporters and speakers said that Kim Jong Un's New Year Address is the important guidelines indicating the shortcut to building a thriving socialist nation and the banner arousing all the service personnel and people to make a heroic advance.

They underscored the need to bring about a decisive turn in the agricultural production, bearing in mind the intention of the Workers' Party of Korea on keeping up agriculture as a major thrust in the drive for economic construction and improved people's living standard this year.

They underlined the need to concentrate all efforts on making full preparations for this year's farming, positively introduce the advanced farming methods and technologies, do farming in every process as required by the Juche-based farming method and thus increase the per hectare yield.

It is necessary to increase the production of rolled steel and heavy rail, bearing in their mind the responsibility for the vanguard sectors of the national economy, they said, and went on:

It is imperative to increase the level of medical technology, improve the medical treatment and preventive medicine so that the benefits of socialist healthcare system reach the people more closely.

It is necessary to go into the stirring reality to create a large number of masterpieces of the times to encourage the people to work new miracles and perform feats.