calendar>>August 21. 2012 Juch 101
Young Koreans Make Good Job in Production and Construction
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- The young people of the DPRK launched the vigorous shock brigade movement, making a great contribution to the country's prosperity and improvement of the people's standard of living.

The builders of the Paektusan Songun Youth Power Station completed the basic dam of Power Station No. 2 while speeding up the concrete tamping of the dam of Power Station No.1.

Young builders for the reconstruction and repair of northern railways broke down the wall of a tunnel extending thousands of meters 45 days earlier than schedule and procured at least 10 000 timbers for the construction in 20 days.

Youth performed feats in tunneling and mining and took charge of mucking and laying of roadbed at coalfields across the country.

Activities of youth have been remarked in the metal industrial field.

Members of the Kim Hyok youth shock brigade of the Chollima Steel Complex made innovations in the settling reservoir project as part of raw materials-related system for anthracite gasification and youth of the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex formed a shock brigade to increase the production of heavy rails and helped the gas generator project.

Young people in the field of railway transport including the Pyongyang, Kaechon and Hamhung railway bureaus repaired lots of locomotives and passenger and freight cars, upgrading transport capacity.

Young people stepped up the shock brigade movement at deep underground cutting faces in Kumgol and in major units of Komdok as well as at the construction site of zinc oxide production base in Tanchon, registering successes.

Many young people living in Pyongyang dedicated their efforts to the building of Changjon Street as nighttime youth shock brigaders.

A great number of young people have performed feats at the construction sites including those of the Orangchon Power Station, Hamhung Youth Power Station No.1 and Ryongmae Island Tideland Reclamation.

Young people have also been active in the April 15 Technical Innovation Shock Brigade Movement and in the cooperative farms.

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