Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- North Hwanghae Province of the DPRK is pushing ahead with the work for regional development.

While directing efforts to building up their own scientific and technological forces, it is ensuring that they enhance their leading role in every major theatre.

Researchers and technicians at the manufactory of high-tech goods of the provincial science and technology commission and other units are working hard to manufacture equipment necessary for the modernization of factories with their own efforts and technology.

The provincial informatics management bureau is stepping up the development and introduction of programs conducive to putting production and management activities on an IT basis.

Scientists and researchers of different universities in the province are putting spurs to the research projects for the development of new products and for increasing the proportion of locally available raw and other materials and recycling.

The research is intensified with the emphasis on activating production by using local sources of raw materials.

Scientists and researchers in the agricultural and forest fields of the province are also making efforts to solve scientific and technological problems for putting cultivation and management on a scientific basis of a higher level at farms and raw materials bases in cities and counties. -0-