Pyongyang, December 12 (KCNA) -- North Hwanghae Province of the DPRK is pushing ahead with the projects for regional development and improvement of the people's living standards.

The construction of a wheat processing factory and the reconstruction of a duck farm have been hastened at the final stage and the Sariwon Tractor Parts Factory and the provincial agricultural science institute have been modernized.

Kangwon Province is striving to supply the finishing building materials needed for rural housing construction by its own efforts.

The Anbyon Ceramic Factory has reconstructed and expanded production buildings and laid a foundation for producing hundreds of thousands of square meters of tiles a year.

Production processes of seven kinds of finishing building materials were newly built to meet the needs of cities and counties.

Cities and counties, too, have built their own production bases and increased the production indices. -0-