Pyongyang, January 8 (KCNA) -- Amid an all-people general advance accelerated to greet the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea with proud labor achievements, the Cabinet and economic guidance organs are actively organizing the economic work for independent and comprehensive development of the national economy.

Analyzing and reviewing the successes and experience gained last year, the Cabinet is working out concrete plans with the main emphasis put on further intensifying the state's unified guidance over the economic work and establishing the revolutionary discipline and order in economic management.

Major industrial sectors of the national economy are intensively discussing plans for promoting the next-stage development while carrying out their production plans for indices by steadily boosting the enthusiasm for increased production.

The State Planning Commission and the non-permanent central committee for promoting Regional Development 20×10 Policy are making thorough preparations for pushing ahead with projects under the regional development policy in the cities and counties selected for this year.

The sectors of disaster management, land and environment protection and urban management are sincerely discussing the practical measures to be taken for initiatively coping with disastrous abnormal weather, improving afforestation and ecological environment and giving face-lifting to the provincial and city and county seats.

The sci-tech sector is studying and discussing rational proposals for setting innovative research goals on the principle of giving priority to solving pending problems and for bringing about better results. -0-