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The Taedonggang Foodstuff Factory is steadily putting spurs to technical innovation as it develops new products and technically upgrades equipment.

In recent three years alone, the factory developed and introduced many technical innovation plans. For example, it introduced a highly efficient microorganism bio-activator into the fermenting process to raise the actual yield and a device for measuring the enzyme consumption in real time.

In particular, it established a Koryo soybean paste liquor production method with soybean paste and fermented bean, which have traditionally been used in diet by the Korean people. The method took the first place at the 37th National Sci-Tech Festival held last year.

“Not only officials but also nearly half of the employees of our factory are university graduates who took day courses and many others finished or are attending online college courses,” said Choe Hyon Sil, PhD and chief engineer of the factory, as to the secret of their success.

The factory gets a lot of employees to join a relevant online college course every year, although it is busy with production, and encourages each of them to carry out a technical innovation assignment during their college days.

“An old saying goes that a man who plants a tree looks forward to the future ten years hence and a man who moves a mountain to the future 100 years. I think a man who trains talents today looks forward to the future 100 years or more. Even though we are busy and find it difficult to do so at present, when all the employees become intelligent workers, they will do great things for the factory and country,” said the chief engineer.

As jewel glitters when worn, the factory encourages every employee to take an active part in the massive technical innovation campaign.

It annually presents technical innovation tasks for the year and nominates the top 10 technical innovators in the annual review of production to provide them with huge rewards.

Employees discuss their designs and various technical problems as they walk along the factory compound, which reminds viewers of a research institute.

The sci-tech learning space of the factory always brims with the employees’ enthusiasm for study.

According to Kim Kwang Bok, the sci-tech disseminator of the learning space, more than 10 000 pieces of latest sci-tech information are collected every year and hundreds of thousands of data pieces have been stored so far. Therefore, the employees who have entered the technical innovation competition come to the sci-tech learning space to refer to them after a day’s work every day.

“The goal of the factory is to make all its employees university graduates,” said Choe Hyon Sil.