The book contains the President's 43 works including his speeches and talks made in the period from July to December, Juche 73 (1984).

The works comprehensively deal with the original ideas and theories and policies on victoriously advancing the revolution and construction as required by the revolutionary development on a new higher level.

Works including "Let Us Thoroughly Implement the System and Method of Juche-oriented Economic Management" and "On Improving and Strengthening the Socialist Economic Management" clarify the principled issues which the officials should consider as guidelines for guiding and managing the socialist economy.

"We Must Increase Power Production by Building Many Hydroelectric Power Stations," "On Increasing the Production of Structural Steel and Energetically Waging the Movement for Reclaiming Tideland and Obtaining New Land," "Some Tasks Facing the Mining Industry, the Machine Industry and the Chemical Industry," and other works specify tasks facing each sector of the national economy to bring about a turn in the socialist economic construction.

Such works as "We Must Lay out the Main Street of Mangyongdae District in Modern Style" and "On Successfully Building Ssuk Islet into a Recreation Ground" clarify the tasks and ways to improve the standard of people's living.

The President in various works including "A Talk with the Delegation of the Japan Socialist Party" and "A Talk with the Delegation of the Irish Workers' Party" gave perfect answers to the theoretical and practical questions arising in accomplishing national reunification and the cause of global independence.

The book also contains works which clarify the issues of working out national economy plans well, intensifying the drive for economization and further improving and strengthening the technical management and other issues.