{"id":52806,"date":"2022-09-21T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T01:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=52806"},"modified":"2022-09-19T16:50:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T07:50:47","slug":"s-hamgyong-province-orders-rapid-progress-in-rural-housing-construction-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/s-hamgyong-province-orders-rapid-progress-in-rural-housing-construction-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Hamgyong Province orders rapid progress in rural housing construction projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">South Hamgyong Province authorities recently ordered rapid progress in the construction of rural housing in local cities and counties, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Daily NK source in South Hamgyong Province said Friday that the provincial party committee is pressing ahead \u201cin several ways\u201d to achieve rapid progress in construction &#8211; including the dispatch of technicians to construction sites &#8211; with a view to complete \u201cthe construction of rural housing in cities and counties in line with this year\u2019s construction plans.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, the province&#8217;s party committee decided on Aug. 30 to dispatch technicians to construction sites \u201cto successfully press ahead\u201d with construction of modern \u201csocialist\u201d housing in agricultural communities, ordering cities and counties to execute rural housing projects with the support of the province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, the provincial party committee ordered localities to ensure that construction sites have priority access to oil for construction machinery, and to concentrate on logistical efforts to gather funds and mobilize labor for construction, even if that meant levying \u201cnon-tax burdens\u201d (quasi taxes) on farmers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said in Chongpyong County, local authorities have responded to the provincial party committee\u2019s order by demanding that all households take part in support efforts. They have ordered neighborhood watch units to determine which households have contributed no support and \u201creport them to neighborhood and village party committees.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local authorities even threatened farming households who fail to support the construction effort with bad \u201creviews\u201d and exclusion from the allocation lists for the new homes, likening their \u201cshameless, conscienceless behavior\u201d to \u201creceiving for free a home the state worked so hard to build.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, farmers are rather gutsily responding to the scolding with complaints of their own. \u201cOur families have little to eat, and we\u2019re barely getting by day-to-day. And you\u2019ve asked us to build houses when life is this hard?\u201d they ask. \u201cWe don\u2019t care if we receive a house or not.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said since the provincial party committee issued its order, construction of rural homes \u2014 which had been proceeding at a lax pace \u2014 has suddenly begun picking up speed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWith builders storming into home building sites where the ground had barely been broken and construction proceeding so quickly, locals are expressing concern,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With workers erecting walls by slapping together poor-quality materials, and then moving quickly to plaster the just-finished walls, locals are reportedly worried that the homes are unsafe and could collapse at any time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source added that even farm officials quietly worry that woe might befall them if they were to move into the homes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rodong Sinmun reported in an article last Thursday that officials and workers in each province \u2014 \u201cholding aloft the party\u2019s grand conception for building socialist rural housing\u201d \u2014 were ceaselessly expanding the results of construction of rural homes, waging \u201cbreakthrough struggles of loyalty and fierce all-night struggles,&#8221; adding that, &#8220;b<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">y province, Pyongyang, Chagang Province, North Hamgyong Province and South Hamgyong Province are taking the lead.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20220916-2\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Hamgyong Province authorities recently ordered rapid progress in the construction of rural housing in local cities and counties, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 A Daily NK source in South Hamgyong Province said Friday that the provincial party committee is pressing ahead \u201cin several ways\u201d to achieve rapid progress in construction &#8211; including the dispatch of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":44933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1360],"tags":[140,855],"class_list":["post-52806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-society","tag-construction","tag-housing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>S. 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