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Speech of Hu Jintao at Banquet

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the People's Republic of China, gave a grand banquet at the Great Hall of the People in welcome of the China visit of Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Hu Jintao said in his speech:
    You Comrade Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, have visited China again with the deep feelings of the Party, the government and the people of Korea toward the Party, the government and the people of China with the approaching of the lunar New Year's Day, a traditional holiday of the two peoples.
    In this place I warmly welcome you General Secretary Comrade Kim Jong Il on behalf of the Chinese party, government and people and sincerely wish you sufficient successes in your visit.
    I extend New Year's greetings to you General Secretary Comrade Kim Jong Il and the Korean people.
    During my visit to Korea in October last year, I witnessed new noteworthy successes gained by the Korean people in shaping out a road of development suited to the specific conditions of Korea, rallied close around the Workers' Party of Korea headed by you General Secretary Comrade Kim Jong Il. We, as your close neighbor, friends and comrades, sincerely hope that Korea will steadily develop and grow strong and prosperous and wholeheartedly wish the Korean people an affluent and happy life.
    The Chinese party, government and people will as ever support the Korean party, government and people in maintaining the orientation of socialist development and the Korean comrades in shaping out the road of development suited to the specific conditions of their country, in raising and maintaining their demand for independent and peaceful reunification and in striving to improve international environment.
    We are convinced that the Korean people will certainly achieve consistently new greater successes in the cause of building a powerful state under the firm leadership of the WPK headed by you General Secretary Comrade Kim Jong Il.
    We should value the traditional Sino-Korean friendship as it is a precious treasure the leaders of the old generation of the two countries handed down to us.
    It is our sacred mission given by the era to consolidate and develop the Sino-Korean relations of friendship and cooperation. I reached an important agreement with you General Secretary Comrade Kim Jong Il on developing the friendly and cooperative relations in a deep-going way during my visit to Korea in October last year and reaffirmed the important agreement a little while ago.
    The Chinese Party and government set it as their firm strategic policy to attach great importance to the Sino-Korean relations and steadily consolidate and develop the Sino-Korean relations of friendship and cooperation.
    We will further expand and deepen bilateral exchange and cooperation in different fields in the spirit of inheriting the traditions, facing up to the future, building good-neighborly friendship and strengthening cooperation together with the Korean Party, government and people so as to vitalize and invigorate the traditional Sino-Korean friendship, bring more blessings to the two countries and the two peoples and make a greater contribution to achieving the peace, stability and development of Northeast Asia.