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In the party's activities, congresses have always been the most important forum for taking stock, for checking what has been accomplished and for drawing up the general lines of future development. How much more does this apply to the upcoming VIII Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party! It is called upon to sum up the major results of a period of fruitful work and to adopt a plan for a communist offensive over the next twenty years. Our people have already deployed their initiative in the pre-congress discussion of the draft directives. They have adopted as their main goal the great economic task set by the party: to complete the construction of socialism and gradually move on to the extensive construction of the material and technical base of communism. The grandiose program in its scope envisages accelerating the pace of economic restructuring. In 1980, Bulgaria should be a country with a seven-fold increase in industrial production and an almost tripled agricultural output compared to 1960. This means fully revealing and fully utilizing the natural and material resources of our homeland, pursuing even faster rates of electrification, and bringing the struggle for technical progress to the forefront in all economic sectors.