The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, who worked out long ago a plan to improve the people's living standards as early as possible by making effective use of the sea in conformity with the natural and geographical features of the country with long coastlines, clearly indicated the orientation and ways for positively promoting and developing offshore fish-farming and aquaculture and has wisely led the work to put it into practice.

He had already given the WPK Central Committee a special instruction to take direct charge of and push forward with the work for setting an example to be followed by all coastal cities and counties to promote their development in a peculiar way suitable to their specific conditions by making the most effective use of marine resources amid the stirring reality in which the historic struggle for implementing the Regional Development 20×10 Policy is being dynamically waged. True to his special instruction, Sinpho City of South Hamgyong Province, a typical coastal city with small cultivated acreage for its population, was set as a model for this year and the preparatory work has been conducted.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, together with senior officials of the Party and the government, visited the Phungo-dong of Sinpho City in South Hamgyong Province on July 15 to inspect the construction site of a offshore farm and acquaint himself with the work plans. He chaired a consultative meeting of officials concerned on the spot.

Present there were Kim Tok Hun, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK and premier of the Cabinet, Jo Yong Won, Ri Il Hwan, Kim Jae Ryong, Pak Thae Song and other secretaries of the C.C., WPK, Pak Jong Gun, vice-premier of the Cabinet and chairman of the State Planning Commission, major commanding officers of the armed forces organs and officials concerned of the province and in the designing sector.

Kim Jong Un guided the consultative meeting.

The meeting discussed the issues arising in building the Sinpho City Offshore Farm into a new fine model of shallow-sea culture, generalizing it to bring about substantial improvement in the economic development and the people's living standards of coastal cities and counties, and more dynamically pushing forward with the WPK's Regional Development 20×10 Policy.

Referring to the purpose of the consultative meeting, Kim Jong Un analyzed the economic potential of the sea and the importance and significance of the effective exploitation and use of the resources by the cities and counties of the coastal areas in successfully bringing about the epochal change in the 10-year revolution for the regional development which has entered the full-scale phase of its implementation and set forth practical tasks and ways for settling them.

He stressed that it is very important to develop and make good use of natural and economic resources in the regional areas in order to secure the independence and driving force of the regional economic development and, furthermore, to develop the country's economic power in a unified and development-oriented way.

He said that only when all the local areas and regions build the foundations for independent and sustainable development and foster the balanced and competitive growth in the whole region, can the regional economy develop, and the more regional economy develops, the greater the motive power of the overall economy will be created, contributing to the growth of the strategic economic power.

The consultative meeting heard data on the economic profit and effectiveness of the Sinpho City Offshore Farm.

Kim Jong Un seriously analyzed the reasons why the Party's policy on developing the regional economy by making good use of the mountains in mountainous areas and the sea in the coastal regions has not been implemented so far. He stressed that the policies consistently maintained by the Party on bridging the gaps between urban and rural areas in economic life can be implemented only when the state provides all conditions and possibilities for the economic growth in the regional areas in a responsible manner.

Saying that if the scallop and kelp farming is conducted well in the waters off Phungo-dong area, the city of Sinpho, which is poor in economic power, can become the richest city of the DPRK in three to four years, he expressed his determination to successfully build the Sinpho City Offshore Farm into a model of aquaculture in the new century and present it to the people in the city as a gift.

He entrusted the construction of the Sinpho City Offshore Farm to the Korean People's Army units, saying it is the unique ties between the WPK and the army and their sacred tradition and the decisive guarantee for victory in the revolution that when the Party plans any project for leading the revolution, the army unconditionally carry it out, always holding it as an honorable historic mission.

He expressed expectation that the KPA, absolutely loyal to the Party's idea, leadership and orders, would successfully build the model of offshore farming, to which the state attaches importance, and present it to the Party and the people as an outcome of its steadfast revolutionary stand and patriotic spirit.

He stressed the need for relevant units to responsibly carry out the tasks assigned to them as regards the construction of the Sinpho City Offshore Farm.

He instructed the Party Central Committee to set a creative example to be generalized and applied to other parts of the country by taking direct charge of the construction of a modern offshore farm in Sinpho City and strongly and successfully pushing ahead with it. He also made sure that a division in charge of offshore farm construction was set up within the non-permanent committee for promoting Regional Development 20×10 Policy to exclusively supervise and guide the construction of aquaculture bases in other coastal cities and counties.

Pointing out that the layout of the farm, submitted by the designing sector, was not worked out at the level appropriate to a model creation of the aquacultural industry in the new century, he stressed the need to conduct a sincere study in a more innovative manner and create new ones so as to make the construction of the Sinpho City Offshore Farm another revolutionary stage of development in designing industrial facilities, and indicated the orientation of design.

Like all other affairs, the development of aquaculture should also be based on scientific guarantee and calculation along with the proactive introduction of advanced technologies, he said, calling for giving priority to the strain selection and paying primary attention to raising the scientific level to the maximum in the whole process, ranging from the management of the breeding ground to the maintenance of ecological environment.

The consultative meeting took relevant measures after specifying practical tasks, including the issue for the leading city and county officials to comprehensively investigate the natural and geographical features and economic potentials of the regions under their charge and conduct scrupulous study and organizational work to fully exploit them, the issue of perfecting the legal and institutional mechanisms to make the preferential measures for regional economic development prove effective and the issue of directing efforts to training core technicians and skilled workers in all cities and counties, and.

After the meeting, Kim Jong Un went round the offshore farm.

Learning about the shellfish farming under way on a trial basis, he said that the waters off the Phungo-dong area are favorable for aquaculture in various aspects, including water quality, depth and temperature. With his heart filled with deep emotion, he pictured the morrow of the Sinpho citizens who will enjoy happiness along with the wonderful change in the coastal area.

All the officials, who took part in the consultative meeting in the presence of Kim Jong Un, made a firm pledge to perform remarkable feats in the most proud and worthwhile struggle by remaining true to their mission and duty in the course of the struggle for placing the current new phase of regional development on a track of rapid promotion, full of confidence in the sure prospects of aquaculture and the possibility of its development.

The meeting, held on the coast of Sinpho City, South Hamgyong Province, will be recorded in history as a crucial watershed that provided an epochal milestone for the regional economy development of our own style and as today's "Changsong Joint Conference" that instilled into all the party members and people stronger confidence in the creation of new life and new happiness.