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The Advanced Sci-Tech and Products Show-2024 took place at the Grand People’s Study House in Pyongyang.

The exhibition, aimed at piquing public interest in the dissemination, exchange and distribution of advanced science and technology and products and further encouraging their development and introduction, was attended by more than 480 units in the fields of metal, chemical and machine-building industries, agriculture, light industry, public health and information industry.

On display were more than 2 200 pieces of advanced scientific and technological research and development and introduction successes highly appreciated at the national sci-tech festival and exhibitions of sector-specific sci-tech achievements as actual objects or in the form of miniature and diagram.

Han Yong Jin, department director of the Grand People’s Study House, said, “This exhibition was attended by over 140 more units than last year. The presented proposals and products were rated with the main stress put on their technical level and introduction.”

What drew the attention of visitors were products made by relying on domestic raw and other materials and technology.

One of them is a metal-oxide arrester from the cutting-edge power electronic products company. It is a latest sci-tech product with high nonlinearity and energy absorbing capacity, fast response characteristic and great reliability, which is being used worldwide. The product based on domestic materials and technology received more than 20 state certifications, including a certificates of registration of high-tech products and sci-tech achievements, and has been introduced into many units.

Such high-tech products as an accelerator of the harvest time of cereals and vegetables that helps increase their per-hectare yield and a rare-earth activator for animals for increasing the production of meat, eggs and milk were in great demand.

The booth of the Jonjin Pharmacy also attracted visitors as it displayed the Cnidium officinale and Plectranthus esculentus capsule, the cuttlebone licorice ulcer granules and the barrenwort and matrimony vine tea.

The capsule is a medicine for curing migraine prepared by using ultrasonic extraction and other advanced pharmaceutical techniques on the basis of the prescription of Chongungdajosan, traditional mixed Koryo medicine. The ulcer granules made by rationally mixing such Koryo medicinal materials as cuttlebone and licorice, which have traditionally been used for treating digestive diseases, and the barrenwort and matrimony vine tea produce remarkable effects in the treatment of diseases.

The ion activating calcium presented by a unit also drew the attention of visitors as a mixture of natural essential microelements with calcium carbonate as the main component, which has no unpleasant taste and odour as compared with other calcium medicines, causes no indigestion or side-effects and has high absorptivity rate.

The exhibition inspired visitors to share advanced sci-tech achievements and experience.

A diagrammatic chart presented by a research unit attracted many people who wanted to learn the technology for restoring the colour of discoloured granite structure and preserving the colour. The technology, developed by the unit through a joint study with different research institutes, makes it possible to greatly increase the lifetime of discoloured granite structure through the non-destructive restoration of its colour.

During the exhibition there were also interviews about technology transfer and service related to advanced science and technology and products.