The book contains 54 works including historic talks and speeches made by Kim Jong Il from January to June 2000.

In the work "On Making a Decisive Advance in the Building of a Great, Prosperous and Powerful Socialist Country", he comprehensively indicated the tasks and ways for consolidating the single-minded unity of the WPK and the revolutionary ranks through the intensified Party work and glorifying the 55th anniversary of the WPK as a grand festival of victors.

Some works deal with the issues on measures for boosting the national economy and improving the people's standard of living, including the remodeling of major industrial sectors such as chemical, metal and machine-building industries with modern technology, modernizing equipment at light industrial factories and introducing advanced fish farming science and technology.

There are also famous works giving perfect answers to the theoretical and practical issues arising in all fields of the revolution and construction, including the issue of properly conducting the land realignment, a great transformation of nature for the prosperity of the country and a patriotic work of lasting significance, the issue of modernizing and industrializing construction on a higher level and the issue of improving the light decoration of Pyongyang.