Successes have been achieved in the effort to consolidate the country’s educational foundation. Kim Il Sung University, Kim Chaek University of Technology and University of Sciences developed into research-oriented universities where teaching, scientific research and production are integrated. Many other universities and colleges instituted new departments and introduced hundreds of subjects to train talents for key industrial sectors. Dozens of provincial-level colleges of

The Academy of Light Industry under the Ministry of Light Industry has made a series of achievements conducive to improving the people’s living standards. The Textile Research Institute established a new spinning technique suited to the characteristics of Lyocell fibre, solved technical problems arising in further improving the quality of school uniform cloth and perfected the method of producing crepe which has considerable absorptivity and anti-crease ability and which is n

The Sangwong Cement Complex has carried out its third quarterly national economic plan. The complex took measures to operate equipment at full capacity and conducted the operation and command in a meticulous way. It exerted efforts on scientifically setting the amount of necessary additives to realize the optimization of products and readjusted and reinforced the production system as required by technical norms, thus providing a sure guarantee for boosting cement production b

The Physics Institute of the State Academy of Sciences has made successes in the research work for optimizing the operation of the oxygen heat blast furnaces of the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex. The researchers developed and introduced a system for comprehensively grasping the state of the furnaces and setting the needed amount of fuel and charges, thus saving a large amount of anthracite every day and reducing the sulphur content greatly so as to improve the quality and p

The Nutritious Liquid Fertilizer Factory under the Sunchon Chemical Complex finished the production of nutritious liquid fertilizer for operating the Nanguan Combined Greenhouse Farm. The factory pushed ahead with the technical upgrading for reducing production costs and improving quality and productivity while arousing the creative initiative of the masses with main emphasis on advanced technology and economic efficiency. The workers and technicians of the factory scrupulous