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Great change in land management work

KCNA

    Pyongyang, July 21 (KCNA) -- The land management work has been dynamically carried on in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. In the last spring, 188 kilometer-long roads were constructed, over 2,000 kilometer-long roads renewed, 583 millions of trees planted, 12,630 dwelling houses built and a thousand and hundreds of kilometers of rivers and streams improved.
    Working people across the country repaired many sections of pavements, built or mended 4,377 meter-long bridges in 197 spots, and planted or restored some 45,600 road marks and over 248,600 accident-preventing stones.
    Jagang Province improved the technical condition of sharp curves and gradients in the Kanggye-Huichon Motorway and other main roads and planted over 1,698,000 trees along the roads.
    Some 11,800 hectares of forests including over 4,600 hectares of forests for firewood were created in South Hwanghae Province, while good species of trees were planted in 3,000-odd hectares in North Hamgyong Province.
    Large and small building-materials production bases in North Hwanghae, North Hamgyong, Jagang and other provinces are turning out coating and other building materials needed for repairing thousands of dwelling houses and public buildings.
    Some 3,000 dwelling houses were constructed and 8,460 odd houses repaired in North Phyongan Province.
    Branch channels of the Kaechon-Lake Thaesong Waterway, tens of kilometers of tidewater dikes and riverbanks were constructed and a large number of trees planted there.
    Besides, thousands of hectares of grass and mulberry fields were created and stockbreeding and fishing farms built.
    For the past seven years until the end of last year, the Korean people built 750-odd-kilometer-long highways, and some 200 bridges and improved the technical condition of over 8,400 kilometer-long main roads. They also readjusted tens of thousands of kilometers of rivers and streams and created a large acreage of forests.