Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- The DPRK has made tremendous achievements in economic sectors this year.

The builders of the Huichon Power Station finished projects of large dams in some 700 days, which would have taken more than ten years, and completed the project of waterway tunnel extending tens of kilometers.

The construction of apartment buildings is in full swing in the Mansudae area in Pyongyang.

A 26-storeyed building took shape less than four months after its groundbreaking in May this year and a 45-storeyed building 89 days after the completion of its groundwork.

It has taken only 30 hours on an average to build a story.

A fresh economic upsurge has been registered in South Hamgyong Province.

The February 8 Vinalon Complex has built modern production processes to mass-produce quality vinalon fiber, while the Hungnam Fertilizer Complex completed in a short span of time the first-stage gasification project for producing fertilizers with raw materials and fuel available in the country.

The Taehung Youth Hero Mine started producing magnesia clinker and light burned magnesia with locally available fuel, instead of cokes, and the Ryongyang Mine has taken on a new look suitable to the features of the Songun (military-first) era.

The Ryongsong Machine Complex successfully made modern geothermal equipment in some 100 days.

The builders of Tanchon Port completed the project of breakwater extending a thousand and several hundred meters, which would have taken more than ten years, in less than two years under unfavorably physiographical conditions.

What the people of South Hamgyong Province have done is encouraging all other people throughout the country to work hard for the building of a thriving nation.