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Economic Achievements Made in DPRK over Last Decade

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, July 6 (KCNA) -- On July 6, Juche 83 (1994) President Kim Il Sung convened a consultative meeting of senior economic officials and clearly indicated ways of further developing the major economic sectors including the power, metal and chemical industries and railway transport. On this occasion, economic officials and working people are recollecting what they have done in the efforts for carrying out the tasks given by the President at the consultative meeting, under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    In the period the Anbyon Youth Power Plant, which the President was deeply concerned for in his lifetime, was constructed and the Songwon Dam and Namgang Dam reinforcement projects were completed.
    Thousands of minor power plants including the Songchongang power plants in tiers have been built throughout the country.
    The workers of the metal industrial domain , inspired by the signal-fire of Songgang (Songjin Steel Complex) kindled by Kim Jong Il, have made considerable achievements in the efforts for updating production processes of the iron and steel works and increasing the iron and steel production.
    The Kumgangsan Youth Railway Line project was finished in a year or little more and the Haeju-Ongjin, Singangryong-Pupho broad-gauge lines were opened to traffic.
    The Kim Jong Thae Electric Locomotive Plant, the July 6 Railway Factory and the Rahung Concrete Sleeper Factory are going ahead with the updating of production processes.
    The Kwangmyongsong Saltern, the first of its kind on the East Coast of the country, and other salterns have been built and modern refined salt factories have appeared in different parts of the country including Onchon County.
    Meanwhile, the December 5 Youth Mine has started operation, while the Hungnam Fertilizer Complex built a modern concentrated sulfuric acid production process.
    A remote-controlled long-distance belt conveyer was laid in the Sunchon Cement Complex and a fire-brick production process was put into operation in the Sangwon Cement Complex.