Pyongyang, August 22 (KCNA) -- Officials and working people in South Phyongan Province of the DPRK are making all efforts to carry out the economic tasks for the second half of the year, true to the decision of the Tenth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

After finished the fertilizer production assignment to be sent to the flood-hit areas in August, officials, workers and technicians of the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex are establishing the production line of functional plastic sheet for greenhouse while updating technical and economic indices of major production lines.

Workers and technicians of the Pukchang Thermal Power Complex have expanded successes and experience of producing several hundred million kWh of more electricity than the same period of last year in the first half of the year.

The Chongchongang Thermal Power Plant, Sunchon Thermal Power Plant, Taedonggang Power Station and Taegak Youth Power Station have operated generating equipment as required by technical rules and standard regulations and maintained the power production in a stable way by putting the water control on a scientific basis.

Coal miners at the Sunchon Area Youth Coal Mining Complex and the Pukchang Area Youth Coal Mining Complex are directing efforts to raising the proportion of mechanization in coal mining while giving priority to tunneling for increasing the number of preliminary coal cutting faces.

Coal mines at the Tukjang, Kaechon and Anju areas have carried out their daily assignments by increasing the operation rate of tunneling equipment and conducting continuous drilling and blasting.

The Sunchon Cement Complex is pushing ahead with the production of cement for recovering from flood damage by making uninterrupted innovations and successive leap forwards.

The Anju Pump Factory produces a larger number of high-performance pumps for rural communities and various sectors of the national economy.

Officials and workers at the Yongyu, Jangsan, Jungsan and Ramjong mines are boosting the production by consolidating the existing production bases and raising the operating rate of equipment.

Working people in the sectors of light industry, fishing industry and salt-making industry, including the Phyongsong School Uniform Factory, Anju Silk Mill, Mundok Fishery Station and Namyang Salt Works, are devoting themselves to the production.

The Evodia daniellii Benn forest stations and raw material bases in the city of Kaechon and Pukchang and Songchon counties are directing efforts to producing raw materials for regional-industry factories. -0-

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