Ryanggang

Hyesan. The capital of the Ryanggang Province. Material was taken in a gorge, about 1000 m a.s.l., by the River Tuman-gang (China boundary) north-east of Hyesan (1 June).

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The consequences of this are predictably twofold: regional inequalities (reflecting unequal endowments and/or political clout); and sectoral imbalances as light industry (and hence the provinces) struggle to make ends meet. Rare quantitative data indicating as much can be found in a Soviet source (Trigubenko 1985: 127), which compares trends in provincial revenue and expenditure between 1980 and 1984. Overall, both sides of the ledger declined in the early 1980s in every province except one (Ryanggang). This did not stop central government increasing its exactions by 20 per cent over the same period. By region, while the Pyongan provinces look particularly squeezed, both Pyongyang itself and the Hamyong provinces seem to have held the line in terms of cuts.

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In February 2005, Jilin Province’s Changbai County collaborated with Shandong’s Zhaojin Group to invest RMB 200 million in mining equipment in the Hyesan Youth Copper Mine in Ryanggang. The Hyesan Youth Copper Mine is one of the largest copper mines in Asia and its copper grade is 16 percent, double that of Northeast China.

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Darlene Tymo, the WFP’s country director in North Korea, said that although official statistics from the North Korean government are not out yet, the main harvest of the year is believed to have been worse than last year and that could mean especially remote and impoverished areas — particularly the mountainous provinces of Chagang and Ryanggang along the border with China — could be looking at a harsher than usual winter ahead.

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