The central headquarters for rural construction worked out a detailed plan for producing finishing building materials and has taken practical measures to carry it into practice.

Pyongyang City is pushing ahead with the work to boost the tile production capacity while increasing the production of various building materials.

North Phyongan Province has made preparations for the production of building materials in cities and counties.

South Hamgyong Province stepped up the technical upgrading of equipment to make the production processes with increased capacity prove effective and took measures to ensure quality control and supply of raw materials to produce quality and diverse finishing building materials with locally available raw materials.

Jagang Province updated the foundation of more than 100 building-material production units in the region.

South Phyongan, North Hamgyong and North Hwanghae provinces, too, are stepping up the work to consolidate the building-material production foundation and produce building materials by their own efforts.