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Hu Jintao Visits Taean Friendship Glass Factory

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

    Pyongyang, October 29 (K‚b‚m‚`) -- Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the People's Republic of China, on an official goodwill visit to the DPRK visited the Taean Friendship Glass Factory on Saturday. Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, went there together with him.
    When the car carrying Hu Jintao arrived at the factory, the crowd warmly welcomed him, waving flags of the two countries and bouquets and shouting "Welcome to Hu Jintao" and "DPRK-China friendship".
    Accompanying him were Wang Gang, alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPC who is also secretary of the Secretariat and director of the General Office of the C.C., CPC, Wang Jiarui, head of the International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee, Li Zhaoxing, minister of Foreign Affairs, Wang Huning, director of the Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee, Wu Donghe, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK, Liu Hongcai, deputy head of the International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee, Liao Xiaoqi, vice-minister of Commerce, Chen Shiju, director of the General Secretary's Office of the CPC Central Committee, and other suite members.
    Also accompanying him were Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Kang Sok Ju, first vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Tong Jong Ho, minister of Construction and Building Materials Industries, Kim Thae Jong, vice-director of the International Department of the WPK Central Committee, and Choe Jin Su, DPRK ambassador to China.
    Hu Jintao was greeted by Ri Thae Nam, chief secretary of the South Phyongan Provincial Committee of the WPK, Kim Jong Thae, chairman of the South Phyongan Provincial People's Committee, and Ryang Jang Gyun, vice-minister of Construction and Building Materials Industries and concurrently manager of the factory.
    He was also greeted by officials and technicians of the Yaohua Glass Group Corporation of China including its General Director Teng Fuquan. He was briefed by the manager of the factory in front of the large painting showing the panoramic view of the factory.
    The manager of the factory expressed thanks to Hu Jintao, saying that the Korean people were very grateful to the Chinese party and government for having provided the modern glass factory free to the DPRK and rendered unstinted aid to it so that the factory could be built on the highest level. Then Hu Jintao looked round major production processes of the factory.
    After going round the factory, he was satisfied with the fact that officials, technicians and workers of the two countries successfully built the factory in a short span of time by their concerted efforts.
    Hu Jintao met officials and technicians of the Yaohua Glass Group Corporation and gave pep talks to them, telling them to give sincere help to the Korean comrades in the future, too, so that the factory might contribute to the economic construction in the DPRK and the improvement of the standard of its people's living.