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Young people take active part in youth shock brigade activities

Date: 06/12/2021 | Source: Pyongyang Times | Read original version at source

After the Eighth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, more than 113 000 officials and members of the youth league organizations in the field of the key industries including metallurgical and chemical industries have made a breakthrough for advance in economic construction by conducting vigorous shock brigade activities.

Young people of the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex have carried out their task in the construction of an oxygen blast furnace by the fixed time and members of Kim Hyok Youth Shock Brigade of the Chollima Steel Complex play a vanguard role in the building of a heat treatment furnace for forgings and gas generator of the 6 000-ton press workshop.

Members of the youth shock brigades of the February 8 Vinalon Complex and the Pyongyang Thermal Power Station have undertaken all the hard work including remodelling, repair and slag removing.

Members of the youth shock brigades of the Joyang Coal Mine of the Kaechon Area Coal Mining Complex and the Hungnyong Coal Mine of the Kangdong Area Coal Mining Complex have fulfilled their monthly tunnelling plans.

Young people of the Ministry of Railways have put the production process of the Rahung Concrete Sleeper Factory on a modern basis and produced a large quantity of concrete sleepers through the youth shock brigade activities.

Officials and members of the youth league committees of the forestry management bureaus in Ryanggang and Jagang provinces have taken the lead in production while directing efforts to timber felling and transporting and providing accessories necessary for normal operation of vehicles.

The positive activities of young people inject vitality into the general advance for the overall development of socialist construction.

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