The work serves as a milestone that made it possible to put the overall level of secondary general education of the country onto a new higher stage and an immortal great programme for the development of Juche-oriented education in the new century.

It deals with such principled issues arising in improving and strengthening the general secondary education in line with the trend of education development as the issue of comprehensively examining and properly establishing the educational system on the basis of scientific clarification of the importance and basic duty of the general secondary education and the issue of efficiently drawing up the curriculum for general secondary education and thoroughly implementing it.

Thanks to the immortal great programme, the flames of bringing about a radical improvement in education in the new century were further raised in the field of general secondary education.

Technical senior middle schools were established across the country to suit the economic and geographical features of relevant areas and the contents of mathematics, intellectual, foreign language and basic technical educations were updated at the primary and senior middle schools.

Effective and superior educational methods have been created and popularized one after another to enable students to quickly acquire and apply new and useful knowledge, and many schools across the country have been renovated in keeping with the trend of modern education development and the pedagogical requirements.

Universities of education and teacher training colleges across the country made progress in training competent teachers who are prepared politically and ideologically and possessed of versatile and comprehensive knowledge, practical ability and good educational methods.

Officials and educators in the field of education are still now devoting their wisdom and enthusiasm to turning the education into the one capable of taking care of the future of the country, under the immortal great programme.