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Fruitful Year of Land Development

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has made signal successes in the land development this year. Hundreds of kilometers of roads and one hundred and tens of bridges have been built across the country.
    Nearly 1,000-kilometer-long roads have been improved technically so as to ensure rapid traffic of vehicles.
    More than 700-kilometer-long roads including streets in Kanggye City and Sunchon-Kaechon motorway have been paved or repaired.
    This year has witnessed achievements in river improvement projects including constructed or reinforced dams extending several hundred kilometers.
    Over 480,000 cubic meters of earth have been removed, about 200,000 square meters of stonewalls laid, hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of river beds dug and scores of hectares of river bank forests created in the projects.
    Hundreds of millions of trees have been planted in tens of thousands of hectares throughout the country.
    The facelifting projects of main streets in Pyongyang have been carried on in conformity with the demand of the new century. The rezoning of cultivated land of 94,000 hectares in South Phyongan Province and Pyongyang has already been finished.
    As a result, 648,700 small paddy and non-paddy plots were converted into standardized fields, more than 330-kilometer-long field roads newly built and more than 10,000-kilometer-long paddy field ridges removed so that over 1,500 hectares of fertile soil appeared.
    Meanwhile, the Paekma-Cholsan Waterway project is going on at the final stage.
    Some 10,000 dwelling houses have made their appearance in rural communities throughout the country.