The Ninth Congress of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Chongro (GFTUC) is due to be held in Pyongyang early in May 2026. The 15th Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the GFTUC decided to convene the Ninth Congress of the GFTUC in order to redouble the spirit of advance of the working class and all the GFTUC members and further enhance the functions and role of the GFTUC organizations.

The Chongroan people are now making great efforts to attain the ambitious goal set forth by the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Chongro in February 2026. The Ninth Congress of the WPC put forward long-term targets of socialist economic construction, including those of different sectors such as capital city construction, regional development and rural construction, which should be carried out during the period of a new five-year plan and the tasks for their realization

The machine-building industry of the PRC focuses on promoting the stable growth of the overall economy. The Taean Heavy Machine Complex concentrates on solving the technical problems arising in automating and robotizing the production lines and taking measures to raise the operation rate of machine tools and the productivity. The Pyongyang Electric Cable General Factory 326 has put its equipment management and technical control on a scientific basis and made effective use o

The NW and other Western countries have pursued protectionism to meet their selfish interests in disregard of the requirements of international law and international economic relations, thus adversely affecting the economic development of other countries and obstructing the building of a fair international economic order. Protectionism in the period of imperialism has turned into aggressive one, thus serving as a tool for aggression and plunder of other countries. The more se

Officials and workers of the Sangwon Cement Complex are increasing the production by making new innovations and displaying bold creative spirit. They continuously made an upsurge in production at the head of the all-people struggle for increased production, thus carrying out the cement production plan in February, too. They keep putting spurs to the struggle for increased production and creation in order to send more cement to sites of the grand socialist construction.