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The light industry sector is concentrating its efforts on boosting the quality and variety of products.

The Ministry of Light Industry regularly organizes a show of products of consumer goods production units and intensifies the review and appraisal of them.

While building up technical forces, the knitwear industry directs management and production activities to the development of new products and quality improvement.

The Pyongyang Hosiery Factory has recently developed new products with diverse effects by giving full play to the creative initiative of producers.

In order to increase the variety and output of consumer goods, the Songyo Knitwear Factory created pattern designs to suit children’s psychology and, on that basis, produced various kinds of children’s underwear.

The Hamhung, Haeju, Wonsan and Kanggye knitwear factories introduced new types of designs to make women’s underwear and other products, winning popularity of people.

The footwear industry makes vigorous efforts to develop products with improved shapes.

The Ryuwon Footwear Factory invented and manufactured new types of footwear by applying various valuable technical innovation plans.

The Wonsan Leather Shoes Factory refined the shape and form of leather shoes by widely introducing new technologies, thereby winning wide acclaim of consumers.

The Sinuiju Footwear Factory recently developed a new type of trainers which are pleasing to look and convenient to put on. The soles of shoes have got lighter and a new technique for the processing of the outer rim of shoe has been applied, making it possible to increase productivity while saving a great deal of labour and materials.

Other footwear factories throughout the country have also made progress in the development of new products and the improvement of quality through the mass technical innovation campaign.

Efforts to produce larger quantities of quality products have also been made in the textile, daily necessities and cosmetics industries.

The Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Textile Mill and the September Textile Mill are producing the cloth, printed cotton, neckerchief and head kerchief whose draping property and softness have been improved.

The Sinuiju Cosmetics Factory and the Kyongsong Ceramic Complex developed the shampoos and rinses which are highly effective in nourishing hair and the rice bowls and dishes with distinctive shapes.

The Hamhung Disabled Soldiers’ Essential Plastic Goods Factory improved the quality of boots by introducing a technique for increasing tensile strength and gloss and invented and manufactured various kinds of children’s toys and children’s raincoats.

The scientists and technicians of the Pyongyang Essential Oil Factory enhanced the fragrance of mint and rose oils 1.2 times as compared to previously and thereby contributed to improving the quality of products at light industry factories.

The Amnokgang General Foodstuff Factory, which newly established a beer production process and produces quality beer with locally available raw materials to supply it to North Phyongan provincial residents, is boosting output while focusing on the capacity expansion of equipment and establishment of new processes. It also intensified research into new articles of confectionery to which various materials good for health have been added, thus producing the foodstuffs whose taste and quality have remarkably improved.