He was accompanied by Ko In Ho, vice-premier and minister of Agriculture, Kang Hyong Bong, chairman of the South Phyongan Provincial People's Committee, officials concerned and officials of the South Phyongan Provincial Tideland Reclamation General Enterprise.

He appreciated the efforts devoted by the officials and workers of the enterprise to build an edifice of eternal value by bringing nature under control in indomitable spirit of self-reliance in their all-out drive to implement the decision made at the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the WPK. He ordered to inform the relevant units of the completion.

He referred to the need to hasten the building of the network of facilities of the reclaimed tideland by giving precedence to supplying materials such as cement, take measures for supplying water for irrigation and make large and stable yield by making further study of salt resistant rice species.

He called on the officials and builders of the enterprise to make fresh innovation by giving foremost importance to science and technology and actively introducing peculiar construction method of our own style in reclaiming of new tidelands on the basis of success and experience which they have already achieved, thus contributing to realizing the large-scale projects of our Party for the remaking of nature.