Thanks to the devoted efforts of the workers in the power industrial sector who have brought about a production surge to implement the decisions of the Eighth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea and plenary meetings of the Party Central Committee, a larger amount of electricity has been produced than last year to stabilize the national power supply.

Successes were made in technical updating and modernization of thermal and hydroelectric power production and power transmission and transformation sectors to consolidate the long-term production base.

The Ministry of Electric Power Industry pushed ahead with the work to ensure the stability of production and reinforcement while combining the thermal-power generation with hydropower generation in keeping with seasonal conditions and taking due measures.

A drive to find more reserves for increased production by dint of science and technology was conducted at thermal power plants and hydropower stations to put electricity production on a high level.

They conducted a scientific system command to ensure the balance between production and supply while rationally organizing the cross production and thus satisfied the demand for electricity by major sectors of the national economy, including metal and chemical industries and agriculture, and residents.

Progress has been also made in the work to lay the material and technical foundations guaranteeing the long-term development of the self-supporting power industry.

Officials and workers of the power transmission and transformation sector stepped up the work to readjust and reinforce the inferior power capacitors and form the power transmission and supply system in a rational way, thus reducing the leakage loss of tens of thousands of kilowatts of electricity.

Officials and workers in the power industrial sector are now making steady innovations and progress with a high goal to greet the Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea with labor achievements.