Officials, bearing in mind the importance of the waterway construction in laying the foundation for the sustainable and long-term development of agriculture, conducted organizational and political work with the main stress on intensifying the socialist patriotic movement and the revolutionary mass movement on a higher stage and shortening the period of the project.

The Pyongyang Municipal and South Phyongan Provincial brigades are pushing ahead with the project by dispatching many construction forces and equipment to difficult sections of other units.

Shock brigade members of the Hwanghae Irrigation Construction Brigade and the Brigade of the Ministry of Construction and Building-Materials Industry fulfilled their schedule by more than 1.5 times by displaying collectivist spirit.

Similar successes were witnessed at the Taedong Irrigation Construction Brigade, the North Hwanghae Provincial Brigade, the South Hwanghae Provincial Brigade, the Jagang Provincial Brigade, the Ryanggang Provincial Brigade, the North Hamgyong Provincial Brigade and other brigades.