President Kim Il Sung visited Chosan County several times, clearly indicating the orientation and ways for improving the standard of people's living in the mountainous area by developing the rural economy and local industry. Leader Kim Jong Il, accompanying the President providing field guidance for the happiness of the people, led Chosan County to creditably perform its function and role as a regional center for socialist rural construction.

Wiwon County is associated with the undying feats of the President and Kim Jong Il who visited the county, chose the sites of a power station and the county seat and led it to improve the people's living standard by planting many industrial crops suited to the topographical features.

The President visited the Jonchon Coal Mine, indicating the way to be followed by it and Kim Jong Il turned it into an enterprise conducive to developing the province's economy and improving the people's living standard.

The Usi Mine is associated the warm benevolence of the President and Kim Jong Il as they paved a wide avenue for boosting its production while paying deep attention to its management and lives of the miners.

Inaugural ceremonies took place at the relevant units.