economy

The 2024 spring aesthetic symposium of the urban management sector took place at the Sci-Tech Complex in Pyongyang on May 29 through video-conferencing.

The symposium, held on the theme of "Urban beautification and living environment", was aimed at improving urban beautification by generalizing the successes and experience gained in the work to spruce up Pyongyang and provincial seats in April, a month of urban beautification, and by analyzing and reviewing the revealed shortcomings and causes.

Present there were Im Kyong Jae, minister of Urban Management, officials concerned and officials, scientists, technicians, teachers and graduate students in the fields of urban management, design, supervision and education in Pyongyang and provinces.

Ri Kwang Sik, department director of the Ministry of Urban Management, made a speech.

A video on the work for sprucing up Pyongyang and provincial seats was shown at the symposium. Then, a sci-tech lecture was given to theoretically explain the issues arising in the achievement of harmony of colour for the coating materials for the exterior of buildings, landscaping in spring, disposal of urban waste and urban illuminations.

There was also a show of videos dealing with advanced scientific and technological data related to landscaping and disposal of waste.