Pyongyang, July 17 (KCNA) -- The officials, creators and artistes in the field of literature and art of the DPRK have made redoubled efforts to lead the present all-people struggle for the comprehensive prosperity of socialism by creating masterpieces.

The Ministry of Culture is intensifying the organizational and political work to create many masterpieces of the times that give full play to the revolutionary enthusiasm of the masses in the advance for a great upsurge this year.

The field of stage art is creating songs, music and dance short pieces and dance pieces of various themes and conducting more fresh and vigorous performance activities in the forefronts of socialist construction.

The mass art field is steadily making innovations in the contents and forms of performances given by artistic information teams, mobile artistic motivation teams and art groups and further enhancing the role of the intensive motivation teams in all provinces.

The field of art education is taking measures to train promising reserve talented artistes including publishing and manufacturing reference books for art education and dozens of teaching aids helpful to improving the guidance ability and art of lecturing of specialized teachers of art education units and to improving the skill of students. -0-