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Roofing Materials Factory Commissioned

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, June 1 (KCNA) -- The roofing materials factory of the Yongcho Building Materials Joint Venture Company went into operation. The factory built according to the joint venture contract between the Yongcho Building Materials Joint Venture Company of the DPRK and the Changchun Yongcho Science and Trade Company Ltd. of China produces good-quality roofing materials of various colors.
    All the production processes of the factory including mixing and adhesion are modernized.
    The commissioning ceremony was held Monday.
    A reporter at the ceremony said economic officials, workers and technicians of the DPRK and China built the factory in a short time and put it into operation. He called upon all the employees to keep the factory neat and tidy, elevate their standards of technique and skill and make energetic efforts to increase the variety of the products.
    Congratulatory speeches by Ri Paek Ha, vice-minister of Construction and Building-Materials Industries, and Wu Donghe, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK, were followed by a speech of Cong Zhen, general manager of the Changchun Yongcho Science and Trade Company Ltd. of China.
    The speakers said the traditional friendship between the DPRK and China was developing in conformity with the desire and interests of the two peoples amid the deep concern of leader Kim Jong Il and General Secretary Hu Jintao and other Chinese leaders. They noted that the roofing materials factory was a precious product of the daily growing DPRK-China friendship and economic cooperation.
    At the end of the ceremony the participants went round the production processes of the factory.