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Frontrankers in Mass Technical Innovation Movement

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, September 29 (KCNA) -- The flames of the mass technical innovation movement is blazing higher in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea which has set it as one of the three pillars for the building of a great, prosperous and powerful nation to attach importance to science and technology.
    The frontrankers in the movement are the members of the February 17 Shock Brigade of Scientists and Technicians.
    In the first half of the 1970s, the state saw to it that scientists and technicians resolved knotty scientific and technical problems successfully in creative cooperation with workers at production sites.
    In those days, it was clearly proved that to make the mass technical innovation movement organized was an important way to dynamically stimulate the technical revolution of the country and the shock brigade of scientists and technicians was formed in September Juche 64 (1975).
    The shock brigade movement has steadily developed under the guidance of the Workers' Party of Korea and developed in depth in the form of February 17 Shock Brigade of Scientists and Technicians.
    Now the members of the shock brigade dispatched to major units in various sectors of the national economy are resolving a good many scientific and technical problems arising in the reality, thus making a breakthrough in production and technical development and going a long way toward the building of an economic power.
    The shock brigade consisting of teachers, scholars and technicians of related sectors such as Kim Il Sung University and the Central Power Designing Institute has of late introduced a lot of new technical innovation proposals on the spot after setting it as its main target to technically remodel the power supply system and rationally readjust power transmission lines.
    Its members sent to the coal and mining industries and railway transportation have opened up a bright vista in placing railway administration and commanding on a more scientific basis while sharply boosting output of coal and nonferrous metal ores.
    By their devoted efforts, the technical reconstruction of production processes of many industrial establishments throughout the country such as the Pyongyang 326 Electric Wire Factory, the Tanchon Magnesia Factory and the Ryongbuk Foodstuff Factory has been successfully carried out and a solid scientific and technical foundation has been laid for the satisfactory production of goods badly needed for the development of the national economy and the people's living.
    Those active in the agricultural field are expanding the results of technical innovation. They have made researches into crop growing methods favorable for mechanization and set up an orderly irrigation and drainage system.
    The members of the February 17 Shock Brigade of Scientists and Technicians are adding shine to their honor as frontrankers in the mass technical innovation movement by giving full scope to the revolutionary soldier spirit and patriotic devotion.