Pyongyang, May 4 (KCNA) -- The creativity of scientists and technicians is increasing in the drive to implement the decision of the 11th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

A KCNA reporter interviewed Cha Man Baek, vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Science and Technology of Korea, at the venue for the 38th National Festival of Science and Technology where scientific and technological dissemination and exchange activities are brisk.

The venue for the festival serves as one for sci-tech spread and exchange for training scientific and technological insight, the vice-chairman said, and went on:

Through the panel presentation and examination of sci-tech achievements, exchange and service of new technical products, sci-tech symposium and presentation and lecture on new technologies during the festival, scientists and technicians have acquired a wide knowledge and selected long-term research goals for dynamically pushing forward with the overall national economy by dint of science and technology.

The Material Science Faculty of Kim Il Sung University made a high-pressure gasket with the technology of making composite nano plastic material. It is a high-tech product which can be effectively used for various kinds of compressors, extruders, transformers, pumps, etc.

Bearing in mind the Party's trust and expectation that the scientific front, the forefront for bringing about a vigorous advance in the overall economic front, will bring more innovative results and changes, scientists of the State Academy of Sciences presented valuable research achievements to the festival.

The integrated electricity management system presented by the Electric Power Information Institute under the Ministry of Electric Power Industry is an excellent proposal which is very effective in accelerating the modernization of the electric power industry.

After setting it as a goal of science and technology to resolve the sugar issue needed for the improvement of the people's living standards, researchers of the Dry-field Crop Research Institute of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences has bred and introduced a new kind of sweet potato, which is very high in economic profit as its starch content, yield and sugar degree are high.

South Hamgyong Province presented technologies for making various types of automatic regulating valves and unhulled rice separators.

A desulphurizing process developed by the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex and the new technology for increasing the output of rail steel materials of improved steel quality. developed by the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex are contributing to making progress in metallurgical industry.

The Ponghwa Chemical Factory provided a technical guarantee for mass-producing radiator tubes of various sizes with high cooling effect. -0-