Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- Various units of the national economy are increasing production in the new year's advance.

The grand bases of the metallurgical industry carried out their first tapping.

The Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex increased the production of pig iron by giving precedence to the supply of raw materials and fuel.

The Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex technically refined the Juche-based system of making iron to increase its output on the New Year's Day.

This year, too, the workers of the Chollima Steel Complex are striving with high spirit to produce and supply more iron and steel to the socialist fronts.

The Sangwon Cement Complex took foresighted measures to solve the problems in production on the basis of last year's successes and experience to register high results on the New Year's Day,

The Pukchang Thermal Power Complex also fulfilled its first-day plan for power production. -0-