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Reception Given on Occasion of PRC Anniversary

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

    Pyongyang, September 29 (KCNA) -- The Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and the Central Committee of the DPRK-China Friendship Association hosted a reception at Pyongyang Koryo Hotel Wednesday evening on the occasion of the 56th anniversary of the foundation of the People's Republic of China. Present on invitation were members of the Chinese embassy here. Addressing the reception, Acting Chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries Mun Jae Chol said that the Chinese people had waged the protracted and fierce struggle for the independence of the country under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and proclaimed the foundation of the republic at last on Oct. 1, 1949.
    Since its foundation the Chinese people met all challenges of history and pulled through all difficulties as genuine masters of the state and society and thus built new socialist China in their land with their devoted efforts, he said, and continued: The Chinese people are now waging a vigorous struggle to build a comprehensively well-off society by 2020 in accordance with the decision of the 16th Congress of the Communist Party of China, recording signal progress in political, economic, cultural and other fields of society and the international position of China is daily increasing. The traditional DPRK-China friendship has steadily consolidated under the deep concern of leader Kim Jong Il and President Hu Jintao in the new century, he said, expressing the belief that the bilateral relations of friendship and cooperation would as ever grow stronger in conformity with the common desire and interests of the two peoples in the spirit agreed upon by the supreme leaders of both countries. Speaking at the reception, Chinese Ambassador Wu Donghe said that the Chinese people are waging a vigorous struggle to attain the strategic goal of building a harmonious society and building a comprehensively well-off society, rallied firm around the Central Committee of the Party with Hu Jintao as general secretary. The Korean people grandly celebrated the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Korea and the 57th birthday of the DPRK, thus demonstrating to the world the spiritual trait of the Korean army and people who are out in building a great prosperous powerful country, forming a harmonious whole, single-mindedly united under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea headed by Kim Jong Il as secretary general, he said. It is a firm strategic policy of the Chinese party and government to steadily develop the friendly and cooperative relations between China and Korea, he pointed out, expressing the determination to work hard together with Korean comrades to keep the tree of bilateral friendship ever green as intended by the leaders of the two countries.