Taking part in it were officials and teachers, researchers, technicians and graduate students and students from Kim Il Sung University, the Salt Industry Management Bureau, the Geology Research Institute of the State Academy of Sciences and other units.

Its participants heard more than 60 papers on the achievements made in applying the new way of producing salt by use of underground ultra-saline water and settling the sci-tech problems to put the salt production processes on a comprehensive mechanization and scientific basis.