This year, the Wonsan Shoes Factory developed hundreds of new items in 21 kinds of basic types and further raised the quality of products by introducing dozens of new technologies.

The Pyongyang Essential Foodstuff Factory succeeded in producing such new kinds of health food as fermented bean.

Such signal progress was also made at the Kyongsong Ceramic Factory and the Haeju Bag Factory and in Changsong County of North Phyongan Province.