Kim Jong Il Provides Field Guidance to Industrial Establishments in Jagang Province

Pyongyang, April 9 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, provided field guidance to industrial establishments in Jagang Province.
The first leg of his guidance was the February General Steel Enterprise.
Seeing the modern steel shop and CNC-based control room, he expressed great satisfaction over the fact that the officials, workers and technicians of the enterprise are steadily increasing production after laying a solid material and technological foundation.
The second leg of his guidance was the Jagang Machine Plant.
He went round a processing shop, assembling shop and other places of the plant.
The most important task facing the plant is to dynamically push forward the work to radically increase the manufacture of new products, he said, underlining the need for the plant to continue dynamically dashing ahead towards a higher goal of science and technology on the basis of the achievements made in placing its production processes on a CNC basis.
The third leg of his guidance was the February 8 General Machine Plant.
He met with those who greatly contributed to the drive to study and introduce cutting-edge technology and appreciated their patriotic deeds.
Looking at varieties of daily necessities produced by the plant, he said they are useful and good products. It is of weighty significance in improving the standard of people's living for the central industrial enterprises to boost the production of varieties of daily necessities by making an effective use of by-products.