The presentation was sponsored by the C.C., the General Federation of Science and Technology of Korea. Present there were officials, teachers, researchers, designers and graduate students of more than 10 units including Kim Il Sung University and the Branch Academy of Hydraulic and Marine Sciences under the State Academy of Sciences, the tideland designing institute and the General Enterprise for Tideland Reclamation of North Phyongan Province.

It heard over 70 papers on achievements made in the researches to put the tideland reclamation on a modern and scientific basis.

The participants exchanged successes and experience gained in the reclamation of tideland through the introduction of science and technology.