Scientists and researchers of the State Academy of Sciences played a vanguard role in resolving the urgent problems in the economic work and in production.

The physics institute established a new system for analyzing slag components to contribute to putting the metallurgical industry on a Juche basis.

Officials and researchers of the paper engineering institute made it possible to produce quality paper for textbooks by using domestically available reed as main sources.

The agricultural information institute under the Academy of Agricultural Science established a system for correctly estimating nationwide crop yields by adopting satellite information analysis and crop growth simulation technologies.

Successes were also made at different universities.

Researchers of Kim Chaek University of Technology opened up a prospect for increasing the rail steel production at a low cost.

Pyongyang University of Architecture produced equipment for raising the stability of buildings and structures.