The completion of the production building covering tens of thousands of square meters and housing modern equipment and advanced production processes and the completion of construction and modernization of 10-odd objects including foundry, cast steel shop, sheet metal shop and forging shop have laid a reliable foundation for mass-producing high-performance tractors and farm machines and provided an important base for vigorously pushing ahead with the development of the country's vehicle industry.

The completion ceremony took place on Wednesday.

Present at the ceremony was Kim Tok Hun, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., Workers' Party of Korea, vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and premier of the Cabinet.

Also present were Jon Hyon Chol, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Yang Sung Ho, vice-premier of the Cabinet, Ri Jae Nam, chief secretary of the Nampho City Committee of the WPK, Song Sung Chol, chairman of the Nampho City People's Committee, officials concerned, officials of Nampho City and the factory, working people, officials of construction and relevant units and builders.

Kim Tok Hun made an address.

He said that the completion of the first-stage remodeling and modernization project of the Kumsong Tractor Factory amid the dynamic drive for implementing the programme of rural construction in the new era set forth by the Workers' Party of Korea is a striking demonstration of the strong stamina of the DPRK forcefully advancing under the blueprint for prosperity unfolded by the Party Central Committee despite unprecedented difficulties and also of the potential for the development of the Juche-based industry.

He continued to say that it is the firm determination of our Party to turn all the rural areas of the country into highly civilized socialist ones which are comfortable to work and live at by mechanizing the agricultural production and putting it on a scientific and intensive basis, stressing that consolidating the foundation of the farm machine industry and driving it towards a new era of rural development by our own efforts is one of the important state affairs the DPRK government prioritizes and pushes forward.

Stressing that as long as there are the scientific line and policies of the WPK and the spirit of self-reliance peculiar to the Korean people and their strenuous efforts, the eye-opening reality in which all rural areas turn into a socialist paradise will surely come true, the premier called upon all the people to hasten the overall prosperity of the DPRK true to the grand plan of the Party Central Committee.

At the end of the ceremony, its participants toured the factory.