economy

The national economic plans for July were successfully fulfilled in various economic sectors and units of the DPRK.

The key industrial sectors, the main lifeline of the national economy, increased the production at the outpost of the development of the self-supporting economy.

Workers of the Chollima Steel Complex fulfilled their July plan by displaying the spirit of self-reliance and the indefatigable fighting spirit.

The Musan Mining Complex, a large-scale concentrated iron ore producer, simultaneously carried on drilling work using rotary drills and mucking and increased the operation rate of equipment to revitalize the production.

The chemical industrial sector waged a vigorous struggle for increased production, thus bringing about innovations in the production of fertilizer and basic chemical products.

The electric-power industrial sector launched a vigorous struggle to attain the goal set by the Workers' Party of Korea for electricity production, thus fulfilling the July plan of the Ministry of Electric Power Industry.

The coal industrial sector conducted a dynamic socialist patriotic movement for increased coal production.

The machine-building industrial sector, the cornerstone of the country's economic development and technological progress, strived for the production of custom-built equipment urgently needed for the comprehensive development of socialism.

The workers in the mining industrial sector made innovations in the production of minerals and nonferrous metals.

Transportation workers in the rail transport sector, the pilot of the national economy, overfulfilled the freight transport plan of the Ministry of Railways.

The timber production plan of the Ministry of Forestry was fulfilled in July.

The successes made in the building-materials industrial sector injected fresh vigour into the grand construction projects.

The agricultural sector overfulfilled its national grain production plan by concluding the wheat and barley harvest for this year at the right time and produced a large number of high-yield counties, farms, workteams and sub-workteams and rich harvesters.

Industrial establishments in the light industrial sector waged a dynamic drive for increased production, regarding it as their main task to diversify consumer goods and improve their quality.

Officials and workers in the fishery sector made innovations in the production of aquatic products, while giving priority to strengthening the production bases.

Officials and working people across the country are putting spurs to the drive for increased production and creation to successfully carry out the five-year plan set forth by the Workers’ Party of Korea this significant year marking the 80th founding anniversary of the WPK.