The ministry strove to make sure that coal reserves are secured in different areas with abundant deposit and favorable mining conditions and at major objects, large in scale and good for development in the bituminous coal production, while focusing manpower on them.

It also directed efforts to solving the technical problems arising in the introduction of advanced prospecting methods while ensuring the full provision of test drills to survey teams.

It works hard to widely introduce various advanced methods of physical prospecting into practice and increase to the maximum the prospecting efficiency by combining the methods with other advanced prospecting methods.

It also helps the Pukchang Area Youth Coal Mining Complex and the Tukjang and Kaechon area coal mining complexes record high tunneling results by increasing blasting efficiency and applying equipment proving effective in practice and advanced working methods.