Textile mills are pushing ahead with the work to remodel shuttle looms and iron looms to be pneumatic ones.

They are working hard to make soda alginate, washing agent, leveling agent and other chemical materials by their own efforts and put the rayon production on a Juche basis.

Knitwear factories manufactured the high-temperature, high-pressure piece dyeing machine to improve the quality of goods and normalize production on a high level.

They are paying big efforts to perfecting the technical processes for the development of cloth for men and women's swimsuit and the production of colored stretch yarn and colored rubber thread with domestic raw materials.

They are also stepping up the work to supply softener, hydrogen peroxide and chemical auxiliary material for producing elastics by their own efforts.

Shoes factories introduced automatic gumming machines and manufactured more than 50 single-purpose equipment to perfect production processes.

They introduced adhesives for athletic sports shoes into production.