adminseeking ways to fulfil the strategy, said DPRK Vice Premier Ro Tu Chol in a report. The meeting said it was necessary to produce quality light industrial goods favoured by the people in order to develop local industry and agriculture, adding that attention should also be paid to fields like electric power, coal, metal, railways, machine and materials for construction and buildings.
The meeting also pledged to turn the country’s economy into a technology-based one in a forward-looking manner required by the new century.
It also discussed development of education, public health, sports, capital construction, land management and urban management. According to the KCNA, DPRK Premier Choe Yong Rim, cabinet members and other senior officials have attended the meeting.
In a joint New Year editorial carried by the official media of the DPRK on January 1, the country called for more innovations in the light industry and agriculture, the major sectors in building a prosperous country. – Xinhua.
The editorial, which was considered as a guideline for the country’s work of the whole year, also called for innovations in basic industries such as electric power and coal-mining, so as to build a powerful socialist country with a knowledge-based economy. – Xinhua.
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