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Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Receives Congratulations from Russian President
Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, received a congratulatory message from V. Putin, president of the Russian Federation, on March 23.
The message said:
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un,
I extend my wholehearted congratulations to you on your reelection as president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The decision of the deputies to the Supreme People's Assembly clearly proves the unanimous public support for the line you are pursuing to effectively settle the socio-economic tasks facing the DPRK and defend the sovereignty and legitimate interests of the country in the international arena.
Russia highly appreciates your direct contribution to consolidating the friendly and allied relations between the two countries.
We will, of course, continue to work closely together to further develop the comprehensive strategic partnership between Moscow and Pyongyang.
This undoubtedly corresponds to the fundamental interests of our two countries' peoples.
I wish you good health and well-being with a new success in your responsible state activities.
Yours sincerely. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2026.03.24.)
Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, received a congratulatory message from V. Putin, president of the Russian Federation, on March 23.
The message said:
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un,
I extend my wholehearted congratulations to you on your reelection as president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The decision of the deputies to the Supreme People's Assembly clearly proves the unanimous public support for the line you are pursuing to effectively settle the socio-economic tasks facing the DPRK and defend the sovereignty and legitimate interests of the country in the international arena.
Russia highly appreciates your direct contribution to consolidating the friendly and allied relations between the two countries.
We will, of course, continue to work closely together to further develop the comprehensive strategic partnership between Moscow and Pyongyang.
This undoubtedly corresponds to the fundamental interests of our two countries' peoples.
I wish you good health and well-being with a new success in your responsible state activities.
Yours sincerely. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2026.03.24.)
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KCNA:On Fulfillment of State Budget of DPRK for 2025 and Its State Budget for 2026 (1/2)
There was a report on the fulfillment of the state budget for 2025 and on the state budget for 2026 deliberated by the Budget Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly at the First Session of the 15th SPA.
According to the report, all the people across the country executed the state budget for 2025 as planned in the struggle to fulfill the five-year plan for national economic development.
The report said that the state budgetary revenue plan for 2025 was carried out at 105.1 percent and grew to 107.2 percent as compared with the previous year and continued:
Many industrial establishments in the economic sector carried out their plans for central budgetary revenue at 104.6 percent and those for the regional budgetary revenue at 106.5 percent.
In the last year's state budget, funds equivalent to 103.7 percent as compared with 2024 were spent for further accelerating the comprehensive development of our state.
The defence sector was provided on a top priority basis with funds equivalent to 15.7 percent of the total state budgetary expenditure in order to contribute to guaranteeing security and defence of the country and protecting its interests.
In 2025, the capital investment increased to 101.1 percent as against the previous year, making a contribution to over-fulfilling the five-year plan for capital city construction and pushing ahead with the building of the regional development policy projects, the first-stage project for the Tanchon Power Station, the first-stage modernization project of the Ryongsong Machine Complex and other construction projects of the state.
Funds equivalent to 13.1 percent of the state budgetary expenditure were allotted to the work of national economy including metallurgical, chemical, electric power, machine-building and other key industrial sectors and major economic sectors.
Funds equivalent to 109.3 percent as against the previous year were spent for the development of science and technology.
Funds equivalent to 101.7 percent as against the previous year were allotted for the agricultural work and 38.9 percent of total state budgetary expenditure went to public health, literature and art and sports sectors, including the preferential provision of the necessary funds for improving the educational work.
Last year, too, funds were allotted for the anti-epidemic work in order to increase the ability to rapidly respond to various infectious diseases in the world.
The successful fulfillment of the state budget for 2025 is the result of the boundless patriotic devotion of all the people.
It is important to provide a reliable financial guarantee for the work and production activities of all sectors and units in order to successfully carry out the first-year tasks of the new five-year plan set forth by the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, the report said, and went on:
The state budget for 2026 has been compiled to promote the development of all sectors and units including science, education, public health, literature and art and contribute to the improvement of the people's standard of living while concentrating its investment on the building of the stronger force capable of repelling all sorts of military threats for defending the sovereignty and security of the country and on the successful attainment of the production targets for this year in the national economy.
This year's state budgetary revenue is expected to grow to 100.5 percent over last year and the turnover tax and enterprise profits, major items of the budgetary revenue, will increase to 100.3 percent and 100.1 percent respectively, accounting for 84.4 percent of the total revenue.
The profits of cooperative organizations are expected to grow to 101.8 percent, depreciation 102.7 percent, real estate rent 102.5 percent, premium for social insurance 102.4 percent, income from property sale and price fluctuation 102.8 percent, income from money collection 102 percent, other incomes 104.
There was a report on the fulfillment of the state budget for 2025 and on the state budget for 2026 deliberated by the Budget Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly at the First Session of the 15th SPA.
According to the report, all the people across the country executed the state budget for 2025 as planned in the struggle to fulfill the five-year plan for national economic development.
The report said that the state budgetary revenue plan for 2025 was carried out at 105.1 percent and grew to 107.2 percent as compared with the previous year and continued:
Many industrial establishments in the economic sector carried out their plans for central budgetary revenue at 104.6 percent and those for the regional budgetary revenue at 106.5 percent.
In the last year's state budget, funds equivalent to 103.7 percent as compared with 2024 were spent for further accelerating the comprehensive development of our state.
The defence sector was provided on a top priority basis with funds equivalent to 15.7 percent of the total state budgetary expenditure in order to contribute to guaranteeing security and defence of the country and protecting its interests.
In 2025, the capital investment increased to 101.1 percent as against the previous year, making a contribution to over-fulfilling the five-year plan for capital city construction and pushing ahead with the building of the regional development policy projects, the first-stage project for the Tanchon Power Station, the first-stage modernization project of the Ryongsong Machine Complex and other construction projects of the state.
Funds equivalent to 13.1 percent of the state budgetary expenditure were allotted to the work of national economy including metallurgical, chemical, electric power, machine-building and other key industrial sectors and major economic sectors.
Funds equivalent to 109.3 percent as against the previous year were spent for the development of science and technology.
Funds equivalent to 101.7 percent as against the previous year were allotted for the agricultural work and 38.9 percent of total state budgetary expenditure went to public health, literature and art and sports sectors, including the preferential provision of the necessary funds for improving the educational work.
Last year, too, funds were allotted for the anti-epidemic work in order to increase the ability to rapidly respond to various infectious diseases in the world.
The successful fulfillment of the state budget for 2025 is the result of the boundless patriotic devotion of all the people.
It is important to provide a reliable financial guarantee for the work and production activities of all sectors and units in order to successfully carry out the first-year tasks of the new five-year plan set forth by the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, the report said, and went on:
The state budget for 2026 has been compiled to promote the development of all sectors and units including science, education, public health, literature and art and contribute to the improvement of the people's standard of living while concentrating its investment on the building of the stronger force capable of repelling all sorts of military threats for defending the sovereignty and security of the country and on the successful attainment of the production targets for this year in the national economy.
This year's state budgetary revenue is expected to grow to 100.5 percent over last year and the turnover tax and enterprise profits, major items of the budgetary revenue, will increase to 100.3 percent and 100.1 percent respectively, accounting for 84.4 percent of the total revenue.
The profits of cooperative organizations are expected to grow to 101.8 percent, depreciation 102.7 percent, real estate rent 102.5 percent, premium for social insurance 102.4 percent, income from property sale and price fluctuation 102.8 percent, income from money collection 102 percent, other incomes 104.
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(2/2) 3 percent and income from special economic zones 101.4 percent, as compared with last year.
The central budgetary revenue is expected to account for 72.2 percent of the state budgetary revenue, with the revenue from the central economy amounting to a large proportion, and provincial, city and county people's committees will provide some funds for the scientific research in the agricultural sector, medical work and others to the central budget.
This year's state budgetary expenditure is expected to increase to 105.8 percent over last year.
This year, funds equivalent to 15.8 percent of the total state budgetary expenditure will be spent on national defence, contributing to the steady expansion and strengthening of the powerful self-defensive nuclear deterrent and war capabilities.
Funds needed for socialist economic construction are to increase to 105.5 percent over last year, amounting to 43.8 percent of the total state budgetary expenditure.
Funds equivalent to 106.3 percent as against last year are allotted for the work of national economy in 2026 and they will be spent for the major sectors including metallurgical, chemical, electric power, coal and machine-building industries and railway transport.
Funds equivalent to 105.3 percent over last year will be used for the development of science and technology.
It is expected to disburse funds equivalent to 105.7 percent over last year for the agricultural work in order to contribute to the strengthening of material and technical foundations of rural economy.
This year's state budget allots funds equivalent to 106 percent to educational sector as compared with last year, 105.6 percent to the public health sector, 103.1 percent to the cultural sector and 102.8 percent to the sports sector for the people-centered policies and the social and cultural work.
Funds for the anti-epidemic work are expected to grow to 101.1 percent over last year.
This year, too, the state will send a lot of educational aid funds and stipends to the Korean children in Japan so that they can grow up to be reliable pillars who will carry forward the patriotic cause.
The central budgetary revenue is expected to account for 72.2 percent of the state budgetary revenue, with the revenue from the central economy amounting to a large proportion, and provincial, city and county people's committees will provide some funds for the scientific research in the agricultural sector, medical work and others to the central budget.
This year's state budgetary expenditure is expected to increase to 105.8 percent over last year.
This year, funds equivalent to 15.8 percent of the total state budgetary expenditure will be spent on national defence, contributing to the steady expansion and strengthening of the powerful self-defensive nuclear deterrent and war capabilities.
Funds needed for socialist economic construction are to increase to 105.5 percent over last year, amounting to 43.8 percent of the total state budgetary expenditure.
Funds equivalent to 106.3 percent as against last year are allotted for the work of national economy in 2026 and they will be spent for the major sectors including metallurgical, chemical, electric power, coal and machine-building industries and railway transport.
Funds equivalent to 105.3 percent over last year will be used for the development of science and technology.
It is expected to disburse funds equivalent to 105.7 percent over last year for the agricultural work in order to contribute to the strengthening of material and technical foundations of rural economy.
This year's state budget allots funds equivalent to 106 percent to educational sector as compared with last year, 105.6 percent to the public health sector, 103.1 percent to the cultural sector and 102.8 percent to the sports sector for the people-centered policies and the social and cultural work.
Funds for the anti-epidemic work are expected to grow to 101.1 percent over last year.
This year, too, the state will send a lot of educational aid funds and stipends to the Korean children in Japan so that they can grow up to be reliable pillars who will carry forward the patriotic cause.
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Admin’s note: Belarus state media report Lukashenko will make an official visit to "North Korea" on March 25 and 26. No confirmation from DPRK yet.
KCNA now confirms it:Belarusian President to Visit DPRK
At the invitation of Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Aleksandr Lukashenko, president of the Republic of Belarus, will pay an official visit to the DPRK.
At the invitation of Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Aleksandr Lukashenko, president of the Republic of Belarus, will pay an official visit to the DPRK.
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KCNA:Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Meets and Encourages Newly-Appointed Cabinet Members and Deputies to SPA
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un warmly congratulated the members of the Cabinet who came to assume the heavy responsibilities under the deep trust and expectation of the Party and the people.
Saying that the present situation, in which socialist construction is switching over to a new phase of high-level changes, requires the positive and creative efforts of the Cabinet members who are steering the implementation of the five-year strategy advanced by the Ninth Congress of the WPK, he noted that the officials of the Cabinet should always be full of the will to perfectly carry out the Party decisions, stronger than any others, and throw themselves heart and soul into bringing about practical achievements for the country and the people.
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he had a photo taken with SPA deputies, Cabinet members and ambassadors.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un warmly congratulated the members of the Cabinet who came to assume the heavy responsibilities under the deep trust and expectation of the Party and the people.
Saying that the present situation, in which socialist construction is switching over to a new phase of high-level changes, requires the positive and creative efforts of the Cabinet members who are steering the implementation of the five-year strategy advanced by the Ninth Congress of the WPK, he noted that the officials of the Cabinet should always be full of the will to perfectly carry out the Party decisions, stronger than any others, and throw themselves heart and soul into bringing about practical achievements for the country and the people.
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he had a photo taken with SPA deputies, Cabinet members and ambassadors.
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KimSPA.pdf
Admin’s note: There is the speech of respected comrade Kim Jong Un at at First Session of 15th Supreme People’s Assembly of DPRK.
You can read it in full, alongside Congress report and Kim Jong Un’s concluding speech.
I will soon do a joint summary of each of these speeches which provide to us a coherent picture of the situation in DPRK. For now, these points are important :
1. Economic development, in key industries and agriculture, alongside social services and housing programs.
2. Internationalism and investments in military matters.
3. Emphasis on Ideological Revolution and the remodeling of people’s minds as communists,
4. Calling ROK the most hostile state.
5. Continuing class struggle under socialism, in order to integrate everyone in the same working class.
You can read it in full, alongside Congress report and Kim Jong Un’s concluding speech.
I will soon do a joint summary of each of these speeches which provide to us a coherent picture of the situation in DPRK. For now, these points are important :
1. Economic development, in key industries and agriculture, alongside social services and housing programs.
2. Internationalism and investments in military matters.
3. Emphasis on Ideological Revolution and the remodeling of people’s minds as communists,
4. Calling ROK the most hostile state.
5. Continuing class struggle under socialism, in order to integrate everyone in the same working class.
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Naenara:If You Want to Visit the DPRK
Some foreigners who have been to the DPRK advise their fellows: “If you want to visit Pyongyang, I recommend you should apply for kind service of the Korea International Travel Company.”
They have good reason to say so.
The KITC is the oldest and most established of the travel companies in the DPRK.
KITC established on August 24, 1953, is known at home and abroad for its attractive tourist goods and a wealth of tourist resources.
In close contact with at least a hundred agents across the world, the company has been developing tourist goods of various themes to be taken to the international market.
The standouts are tours of Pyongyang, Samjiyon, Hyangsan, Kaesong, Masikryong and Nampho among others.
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The company employs guides capable of speaking English, Chinese, Russian, German, French, Spanish and others.
It takes safety, exactness and hospitality as its business principle.
We are always with you–this is the motto of the company.
-Yon Ok
Some foreigners who have been to the DPRK advise their fellows: “If you want to visit Pyongyang, I recommend you should apply for kind service of the Korea International Travel Company.”
They have good reason to say so.
The KITC is the oldest and most established of the travel companies in the DPRK.
KITC established on August 24, 1953, is known at home and abroad for its attractive tourist goods and a wealth of tourist resources.
In close contact with at least a hundred agents across the world, the company has been developing tourist goods of various themes to be taken to the international market.
The standouts are tours of Pyongyang, Samjiyon, Hyangsan, Kaesong, Masikryong and Nampho among others.
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The company employs guides capable of speaking English, Chinese, Russian, German, French, Spanish and others.
It takes safety, exactness and hospitality as its business principle.
We are always with you–this is the motto of the company.
-Yon Ok
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KCNA:Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Sends Reply Message to Russian President
The reply message said:
The reply message said:
Esteemed Comrade Vladimir Putin,
I express my sincere thanks to you for having sent before anyone else warm and sincere congratulations to me on my re-assumption of the heavy duty as president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Today the DPRK and Russia are closely cooperating to defend the sovereignty of the two countries and promote the well-being of the peoples through strong mutual support and assistance of alliance character.
I'm convinced that the firm relations and trust between us will undoubtedly guarantee the durability and future purposefulness between the DPRK and Russia and powerfully promote the development and wellbeing of the peoples of the two counties.
Pyongyang will always be with Moscow.
This is our choice and unshakable will.
I express thanks to you once again and extend best wishes to you and, through you, to the fraternal Russian people.
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KCNA:Report on Cabinet's Work Submitted to First Session of 15th SPA of DPRK
Deputy Pak Thae Song, premier of the Cabinet, made a report on the work of the Cabinet at the First Session of the 15th Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK.
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During the period of the Five-Year Plan, the plans for electric power, rolling steel, coal, electrolytic copper, electrolytic zinc and cloth production and housing construction and rail freight transport were successfully carried out among the major indices advanced by the Eighth Congress of the WPK. In the major industrial sectors, the production of Juche iron increased 3.2 times, nitrogen fertilizer 1.5 times, nonferrous metals by 1.9 times, cement 1.4 times and fishery 1.9 times, as compared with the year 2020. The increased production in major indices as a whole clearly demonstrated the development of our economy.
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The metallurgical industry will make the existing foundations for Juche-based iron production prove effective, increase the quality of steel, install more processes for producing various kinds of rolled steel, and take measures to ensure the supply of raw materials and fuel.
The chemical industry sector will direct efforts to giving fullest play to the existing production capacity, while pushing ahead with the work to complete the project for establishment of C1 chemical industry and build up new structure so as to attain the production goals set forth for the sector without fail.
The Cabinet will take strong measures to supply manpower and materials to the electric power industry, put the electricity production and management on a scientific basis and make effective use of the produced electricity.
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It will take measures for the mining industry sector to increase the production of nonferrous metals and put the production on a normal footing at mines, smelteries and factories.
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The Cabinet will help the IT industry step up the modernization of broadcasting and postal communication and the work for putting state business on an IT basis and undertake the work for studying, developing and introducing the integrated control system and integrated production system at a high level in conformity with the specific conditions of all sectors and units of the national economy.
It will press ahead with the efforts to decisively resolve the energy problem, including the creation of natural energy generating capacity in regions of the country favorable to it.
It will continuously conduct the vigorous forest restoration and transformation work to turn all the mountains of the country into "gold" and "treasure" mountains, and make sure that the tasks facing the field of land and environment protection are carried out in a responsible manner.
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The Cabinet will strive to actively preserve the nature of socialist trade in commercial service activities and steadily improve the work of the public service sector and the external service sector.
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The public health sector will rapidly introduce the successes gained in the healthcare revolution started in 2025 to the whole public health sector.
The reporter said that though the tasks facing the DPRK are very huge, we are sure to win a victory as the Party, the people and socialism are united as one by the same destiny and there are millions of Party members and tens of millions of people upholding the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea with one mind
Deputy Pak Thae Song, premier of the Cabinet, made a report on the work of the Cabinet at the First Session of the 15th Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK.
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During the period of the Five-Year Plan, the plans for electric power, rolling steel, coal, electrolytic copper, electrolytic zinc and cloth production and housing construction and rail freight transport were successfully carried out among the major indices advanced by the Eighth Congress of the WPK. In the major industrial sectors, the production of Juche iron increased 3.2 times, nitrogen fertilizer 1.5 times, nonferrous metals by 1.9 times, cement 1.4 times and fishery 1.9 times, as compared with the year 2020. The increased production in major indices as a whole clearly demonstrated the development of our economy.
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The metallurgical industry will make the existing foundations for Juche-based iron production prove effective, increase the quality of steel, install more processes for producing various kinds of rolled steel, and take measures to ensure the supply of raw materials and fuel.
The chemical industry sector will direct efforts to giving fullest play to the existing production capacity, while pushing ahead with the work to complete the project for establishment of C1 chemical industry and build up new structure so as to attain the production goals set forth for the sector without fail.
The Cabinet will take strong measures to supply manpower and materials to the electric power industry, put the electricity production and management on a scientific basis and make effective use of the produced electricity.
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It will take measures for the mining industry sector to increase the production of nonferrous metals and put the production on a normal footing at mines, smelteries and factories.
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The Cabinet will help the IT industry step up the modernization of broadcasting and postal communication and the work for putting state business on an IT basis and undertake the work for studying, developing and introducing the integrated control system and integrated production system at a high level in conformity with the specific conditions of all sectors and units of the national economy.
It will press ahead with the efforts to decisively resolve the energy problem, including the creation of natural energy generating capacity in regions of the country favorable to it.
It will continuously conduct the vigorous forest restoration and transformation work to turn all the mountains of the country into "gold" and "treasure" mountains, and make sure that the tasks facing the field of land and environment protection are carried out in a responsible manner.
(…)
The Cabinet will strive to actively preserve the nature of socialist trade in commercial service activities and steadily improve the work of the public service sector and the external service sector.
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The public health sector will rapidly introduce the successes gained in the healthcare revolution started in 2025 to the whole public health sector.
The reporter said that though the tasks facing the DPRK are very huge, we are sure to win a victory as the Party, the people and socialism are united as one by the same destiny and there are millions of Party members and tens of millions of people upholding the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea with one mind
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VOK:Long-Cherished Desire of the WPK
The groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of 10,000 flats in Pyongyang took place on March 23, 2021 according to the grand plan for capital city construction unfolded by the Eighth Congress of the WPK.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a significant speech at the groundbreaking ceremony.
In the speech he said the construction of 50,000 flats in Pyongyang is the work of long-cherished desire prepared by the Party with great determination to provide the capital citizens with more stabilized and civilized living conditions and it is a noble work that makes the wealth of the state and the results of creative labour of the working people the well-being for themselves.
His speech excited the people across the country. As a matter of fact, the Party and the state faced too difficult and huge tasks at that time.
The capital city construction was called a part of the huge construction work which should be done in the middle of global pandemic.
The groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of 10,000 flats in Pyongyang took place on March 23, 2021 according to the grand plan for capital city construction unfolded by the Eighth Congress of the WPK.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a significant speech at the groundbreaking ceremony.
In the speech he said the construction of 50,000 flats in Pyongyang is the work of long-cherished desire prepared by the Party with great determination to provide the capital citizens with more stabilized and civilized living conditions and it is a noble work that makes the wealth of the state and the results of creative labour of the working people the well-being for themselves.
His speech excited the people across the country. As a matter of fact, the Party and the state faced too difficult and huge tasks at that time.
The capital city construction was called a part of the huge construction work which should be done in the middle of global pandemic.
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