Pyongyang, November 26 (KCNA) -- 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, visited the Sinpho City Offshore Farm under construction in the Phungo-dong area of Sinpho City, South Hamgyong Province to acquaint himself with the progress made in its construction, creation of its culture grounds and preparations for their management and operation.

Accompanying him were senior major cadres of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, leading cadres of design and construction units, Jang Kyong Guk, chief secretary of the Sinpho City Committee of South Hamgyong Province of the WPK, and other senior officials of the city.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, chairing a historic consultative meeting on regional economic development on July 15, set forth a revolutionary policy of putting the material and cultural life of regional people on a track of radical development by working out a proper plan for developing and exploiting economic resources and overall potentialities of each region in keeping with its actual conditions, and by taking practical measures to decisively boost the regional economy with strong national support. To confirm its feasibility, he also gave a task to build a new model of offshore farming on a trial basis. According to his instructions, the construction of the Sinpho City Offshore Farm has been propelled for several months as a major target of the regional construction policy.

With firm resolve to thoroughly implement the Party's regional economic development policy, soldier-builders, officials, technicians and employees of the farm have simultaneously pushed ahead with the construction of buildings and culture grounds and preparations for their management and operation. As a result, the overall construction project has been done by over 70 percent along with the completion of 100 hectares of culture grounds, where scallops and kelp are being farmed on a trial basis.

Under a goal to put its modern offshore farming on the highest scientific level, the farm has proactively introduced new farming techniques and methods to ensure the survival rate of a fast-growing breed of scallop at 80 percent and provide a scientific and technological guarantee for increasing production. It has also achieved important successes in applying advanced technologies to kelp farming.

Thanks to the direct care and solicitude of the Party Central Committee, the farm is being furnished with essential production means and equipment, including various fish farming equipment and materials, plastic boats and aquaculture mother ships, and the manufacturing and securing of sets of equipment to be installed at the processing grounds is proceeding at the final stage.

Saying that to secure the motive force of regional economic development by fully exploiting various resources and natural and geographical environments of regions, in addition to the main construction projects in each region specified by the Regional Development 20×10 Policy, also takes an important share in the Party's regional economic development policy, he repeatedly stressed the need to help all regions lay the foundations for developing independently by effectively developing and using their own natural and economic resources. To this end, it is important to first map out correct long-term development orientation and plan for each city and county to properly tap their conditions and environments for their own economic development, he added, and went on:

Being witnessed in the industrial facility design sector, occasioned by the designing of this farm, is such a trend as grasping and putting into practice new concepts of design based on the proactive application of various space-using methods focusing on functions and managerial convenience after breaking with such a previous mode as uniformly planning floor without considering scientific accuracy and practicability, he said, appreciating it as a positive change that has resolved stagnation of industrial facility designing.

But our overall construction still fails to strictly go through all the processes, ranging from the working out of technical guidelines to designing, examination, agreement and budget planning, etc., according to scientific and legal procedures based on the construction law, he said. Pointing out that in recent years, architectural designs have revealed not a few such taste-oriented undisciplined practices of not ensuring economic profitability as laying stress only on the visual effect, rather than the uses, capacities and functions of facilities, and fixing scales without proper calculations, he cited their typical examples.

Saying that the overall design should be based on an improved work system on the principle of properly calculating the economic efficiency and profit, reflecting the way of obtaining optimum results and enhancing the use-specific functions of relevant structures, he stressed the need to further strengthen the system of inspecting, examining and approving it.

He instructed the relevant national agencies to establish a well-regulated system for disseminating the latest scientific and technological data of advanced shallow-sea culture and push ahead with improving the technical skills of employees.

Learning about the progress made in construction, he concluded that it is necessary to send more skilled workers in order to successfully complete the project, which is being accelerated as a major policy target this year, before the forthcoming December Plenary Meeting of the WPK Central Committee, and gave necessary instructions.

Calling for constructing and operating well the Sinpho City Offshore Farm to turn it into a model of offshore farming and build similar ones across the country, he noted that the state should responsibly provide coastal cities and counties with conditions for revitalizing aquaculture. He also stressed repeatedly that in order to implement the Party's regional development policy, it is necessary to create maximum possibilities for the regions to achieve development, after making scientific calculations on the basis of a comprehensive survey of all resources across the country.

His field guidance at the offshore farm under construction serves as an important occasion that provided a strong practical guarantee for all regions to set a clear development strategy and long-term goals for radically enhancing the scientific accuracy and efficiency of their development and actively push ahead with their implementation from an innovative and creative standpoint in the drive for carrying out the historic cause of regional rejuvenation, which is being dramatically expanded and intensified. -0-