According to Kim Chon Su, a department director of the Ministry of Chemical Industry, many chemical factories across the country made a big stride forward in putting production on a Juche basis during the 70-day campaign.

The Hungnam Fertilizer Complex and Namhung Youth Chemical Complex established the system for normalizing the production of Juche fertilizer, while the Sunchon Chemical Complex equipped itself with the process of acrylic paints.

The Sinuiju Chemical Fiber Mill built a process for making straw pulp with new additives and the February 8 Vinalon Complex a process for manufacturing salt in a mechanized way.

A work for establishing C1 chemical industry on the basis of coal gasification has been pushed forward.

Technical preparations for perfecting the sodium carbonate industry were finished and study for home production of ten kinds of catalysts came to an end.