economy

Thanks to the devoted efforts of all the officials and working people who are all out in the socialist patriotic movement, the revolutionary mass movement, the first half-yearly national economic plans were successfully carried out at different sectors and units of the national economy.

Officials and workers of the sectors of metallurgical and chemical industries, the two pillars of the self-supporting economy, boosted production.

A campaign for increased production was conducted at different units of the coal industry sector and a vigorous struggle was waged for putting the production of electricity on a normal basis in the electric power industry sector.

Officials and workers of the machine-building industry sector carried out their plan for the first half of the year through a resolute struggle.

Workers of the mining industry sector made successes in the production of nonferrous metals.

The freight transport plan of the Ministry of Railways for the first half of the year was fulfilled.

Workers of the forestry sector successfully carried out their timber production plan for the first half of the year.

The building-materials industry sector steadily created new standards, new records, injecting vitality into major construction projects.

The light industry sector, which plays an important role in improving the people's standard of living, seethed with the struggle to carry out the Party's decision.

The Ministry of Fisheries overfulfilled its first half-yearly plan for seafood production.

Officials and working people across the country are putting spurs to the struggle for increased production in order to become honourable victors in the struggle of this year, the first year for attaining the new long-term goals set forth by the historic Party Congress.