calendar>>May 25. 2011 Juch 100
Achievements Registered in Economic Sectors
Pyongyang, May 25 (KCNA) -- Great achievements have been made in the Korean people's effort for the building of a thriving nation.

The concrete tamping of the Ryongrim Dam was completed in some 700 days and the dam of Power Station No. 2 was built successfully in the construction of the Huichon Power Station.

The surge tank and pressure iron pipe construction projects have already been completed and the water tunnel project almost finished.

The Bioengineering Branch of the State Academy of Sciences has succeeded in making DNA chip for testing genovariation, efficacious anti-cancer adjuvant, salt-resisting rice seed and insect-resisting maize strain.

The Pyongyang Vegetable Science Institute with computer-controlled greenhouses has newly bred some 50 strains of over 20 crops. It has also doubled the production by introducing more than 20 sorts of new technologies.

The Pyongyang Floriculture Institute, based on up-to-date technologies, has established mass propagation and cultivation methods of many flowers native to Korea and other countries.

It took only three months for the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex to finish the second series of the gasification project for fertilizer production without use of naphtha.

The Ryongsong Machine Complex has developed equipment needed for heating and cooling buildings with geothermal water.

The Ryongjon Fruit Farm has several hundred hectares of high-yield dwarf apple trees.

Many industrial establishments throughout the country have topped their monthly targets.

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