Pyongyang, April 14 (KCNA) -- Officials and working people at the Anju Pump Factory in the DPRK are conducting the drive for increased production and economy by dint of science and technology.

The factory has stepped up the production organization and command, giving priority to the on-site political work to make all the employees turn out as one in the drive for increased production to successfully complete the production assignments for custom-built equipment by raising the spirit of fulfilling the first quarter national economic plan ahead of schedule.

On the basis of the successes and experience gained in the course of surpassing the peak year of production one after another, it has set an innovative goal for the development of science and technology and launched a socialist emulation for each unit.

It has revitalized the self-reliance bases, invented and introduced a comprehensive processing jig with improved performance and solved in time the sci-tech problems arising in increasing the proportion of locally available products.

It has provided technical guarantee for further raising the surface processing accuracy of large pump body by remodeling important equipment and increased the processing capacity 1.2 times by efficiently arranging the processes at the processing shop no. 2.

Workers and technicians of the factory are working hard to produce more and better pumps of all kinds needed at major construction sites and various sectors of the national economy. -0-