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Present there on invitation were Ro Tu Chol, vice-premier of the Cabinet, Kang Nung Su, minister of Culture, and others.
Staff members of the Chinese embassy were on hand.
Liu Xiaoming in a speech said that respected Premier Zhou Enlai of the Chinese people and President Kim Il Sung, the great leader of the Korean people, signed the inter-governmental agreement on economic and cultural cooperation 55 years ago, adding that this is a precious treasure bequeathed to the peoples of the two countries by the revolutionaries of the elder generation as it provided a legal groundwork for boosting the economic and cultural relations between the two countries.
The friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries have steadily grown stronger in political, economic, cultural and various other fields under the deep care of General Secretary Hu Jintao and General Secretary Kim Jong Il in the new century, he noted.
It is the steadfast strategic policy of the party and government of China to steadily boost the traditional Sino-DPRK relations of friendship and cooperation, he said, adding that they would exert positive efforts for the strengthening of the Sino-DPRK friendship.
Ro Tu Chol in a speech said that the DPRK-China friendly and cooperative relations have developed in various fields for the past 55 years.
He hoped that the Chinese people would achieve greater successes in their efforts to build a harmonious socialist society based on scientific outlook on development under the guidance of the Communist Party of China with Hu Jintao as its general secretary.
Saying that it is the consistent stand of the Workers' Party of Korea and the government of the DPRK to steadily boost the DPRK-China friendly and cooperative relations, he said that the Korean people would work hard to develop these relations in the future, too.
