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Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping Feted

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

   Pyongyang, June 18 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and the DPRK government gave a banquet at the People's Palace of Culture on Tuesday in honor of Xi Jinping, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and vice-president of the People's Republic of China, on an official goodwill visit to the DPRK.
    Present there on invitation were Xi Jinping and Vice-Minister in Charge of the National Development and Reform Commission Zhu Zhixin, Chinese Ambassador to the DPRK Liu Xiaoming, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Zhang Yesui, Deputy Head of the International Liaison Department of the C.C., CPC Liu Hongcai, Vice-Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng, Deputy Director of the Policy Research Office of the C.C., CPC Shi Zhihong and others.
    On hand were Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the SPA, Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, Kim Thae Jong, vice department director of the C.C., WPK, Kim Yong Il, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Ku Pon Thae, vice-minister of Foreign Trade, Choe Pae Jin, vice-chairman of the State Planning Commission, and others.
    Yang Hyong Sop in a speech said that Xi Jinping's visit to the DPRK before any other country after assuming an important duty as vice-president of China showed that the party and government of China are attaching big importance to the DPRK-China friendly relations.
    It is the common desire of the two peoples to boost the DPRK-China friendship provided by the leaders of the elder generation of the two countries, he noted.
    He referred to the fact that the Chinese people are registering great achievements in the struggle to build a harmonious socialist society based on the scientific view on development and in the work to clear away the damage of the earthquake and successfully ensure the Beijing Olympic Games under the leadership of the CPC with Hu Jintao as general secretary.
    He wished the Chinese people greater success in the work to comprehensively implement the spirit of the 17th Congress of the CPC, overcoming all challenges and difficulties lying in their way in the future, too.
    Xi Jinping, speaking next, said that China and the DPRK are linked by the same mountain and rivers and the Sino-DPRK friendship which was provided by the revolutionaries of the elder generation of the two countries and has been consolidated and developed is a common treasure.
    Noting that the Sino-DPRK relations have made new progress under the deep care of the top leaders of the two countries, he pointed to the close relations and cooperation being kept between the two countries and the steady promotion of exchange and cooperation now underway in all fields.
    He said that the Korean people are making great achievements in all fields in the spirit of self-reliance and fortitude under the leadership of the WPK headed by General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
    He expressed the belief that the Sino-DPRK friendship will be brought into fuller bloom thanks to the joint efforts of the parties, governments and peoples of the two countries.
    A performance was given by the Mansudae Art Troupe at the banquet.