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Great Efforts for Technical Modernization

KCNA

    Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- This year various economic sectors of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea have proved successful in the efforts for technical modernization. The sector of electric-power industry has updated the electricity-supplying system and some thermal power plants have put their management on a scientific basis so as to stabilize the power production.
    A new type of hydraulic turbine has been installed in the Hochongang and Jangjingang power stations.
    Collieries in South Phyongan Province have introduced rational tunneling and mining methods to raise the speed of tunneling more than 1.2 times and coal production over 1.5 times with same manpower and materials.
    A number of coal mines have updated the drawing of mining process blueprint and put the measurement of coal on the basis of IT means.
    Iron and steel works in the country have successfully carried out equipment repair and technical modernization projects to lay a solid material and technical foundation for keeping iron and steel production on a high level.
    Digital and universal machine tools have been made to modernize the production processes in the machine-building sector.
    And successes have been made in raising the precision of hydraulic apparatuses for hydraulic excavators, introducing modern compressor production processes and modernizing production processes.
    Meanwhile, a number of units of chemical and light industries have applied IT means to the modernization of production processes.