Pyongyang, December 9 (KCNA) -- North Hwanghae Province of the DPRK is increasing the production of building materials both in quality and quantity.

The province has made sure that successes and experience gained in developing new products and improving their quality are widely shared and transferred through exhibitions and shows and that the sci-tech forces and the productivity of building-materials production units are increased.

Amid the campaign for realizing self-sufficiency in producing finishing building materials, Phyongsan and Sungho counties have built production bases with their own efforts and technology and made various kinds of decorative plates and colored tiles.

Sariwon City and Koksan County are directing efforts to introducing advanced building materials production technology and developing new products to increase the production of distemper needed for rural housing construction with locally available raw materials.

Songnim City and Suan County are producing light burned magnesia building materials and anionic paint of great practicable value by making technical innovations in selecting and introducing the mixing ratio and processing method of raw materials for the improvement of the interior of buildings and suited to the characteristics of green building materials.

Working people of building-materials production units in Kumchon and Hwangju counties raise the level of technical skill and professionalism in their works according to processes to improve the quality indices of products. -0-