Hundreds of young people volunteered to work in key sectors of economic construction in the province, including the construction site for the third-stage project for remodeling Samjiyon City, collieries, mines and farm villages, and branch schools in mountainous villages.

Young people in Kanggye and Huichon cities and Songgan County joined the youth shock brigade with a loyal mind to make a contribution to sprucing up Samjiyon, a city near Mt Paektu, the sacred mountain of the revolution.

Officials of the youth league and many other young people volunteered to work at cooperative farms and timber felling stations.

Discharged soldiers and students of the graduating class of Kanggye University of Education and other universities in the province volunteered to work in key sectors of the socialist economic construction and schools in mountainous areas.

A meeting for congratulating them was held at the provincial art theater on May 18.