Workers in the metal industry carried out their first quarterly production plan on such major indices as pig iron, rolled steel, ferrosilicon, iron ore and refractory.

The chemical industry fulfilled its nitrogenous fertilizer production plan at 105 percent. The Pyongyang Rubber Factory, the Wonsan Chemical Factory and other units carried out their plans for production of various kinds of chemical goods necessary for the economic development and the improvement of people's living standards.

A drive for increasing the output of electricity was pushed forward to successfully carry out the power production plan in the first quarter of the year.

In the coal industry, the first quarterly coal production plan was fulfilled at 109 percent throughout the country.

The machine-building and mining industrial sectors, too, carried out their first quarterly plans on indices, and the railway transport sector fulfilled its freight transport plan at 104 percent.

The forestry workers carried out their first quarterly plan for timber production at 105 percent.

Officials and workers in the key industrial sector are now putting greater spurs to the production with the same spirit as displayed in the drive to overfulfill the first quarterly economic plans.