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Construction of Hot-spring Tourist Area Progresses Apace
Pyongyang, May 24 (KCNA) -- Construction of hot-spring tourist area is progressing apace in Yangdok County, South Phyongan Province of the DPRK.

The tourist area is divided into medical treatment district, rest district, comprehensive service district, hotel district, etc.

Framework construction of 88,000 cubic meters was carried out in 70-odd days and ski run was formed.

And a work has been pushed ahead to build a new road and railway to the hot-spring tourist area.

Road builders formed more than 40 kilometer-long roadbed, built 30,000 square meters of retaining wall, dug tens of thousands of meter-long ditch and planted more than 8,000 roadside trees of good species.

After removing more than 800,000 cubic meters of earth in a short span of time by applying advanced building methods, the railway builders are pushing ahead with the work to build tens of structures including tunnel and railway bridge and subgrade in three dimensions.

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