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North Hamgyong Province has remodelled Chongjin College of Agriculture.

The university with a total building area of some 17 000 square metres is provided with all conditions and environment necessary for teaching and education, research on agricultural science and technology and students' study, including school buildings, a general lecture room and e-library, laboratories, a gymnasium and dormitory. It will help train more talented persons to lead the implementation of the Workers' Party of Korea's programme for the rural revolution in the new era.

An inauguration ceremony of the college was held on September 16.

Present there were Kim Tu Il, chief secretary of the North Hamgyong Provincial Committee of the WPK, Ho Kyong Chol, chairman of the provincial rural economy committee, officials of the province and Chongjin City, teachers, builders and the teaching staff and students of the college.

Pak Myong Ho, chairman of the provincial people's committee, made an inauguration address to be followed by speeches.

At the end of the ceremony the participants looked round various places of the college.

Earlier, the chief secretary of the provincial Party committee and officials of the province visited the newly-built Hwadae Branch of the Animal Husbandry Institute of the Academy of Agricultural Science.