The message says:

We, on behalf of the WPK, the government and the people of the DPRK, extend warm felicitations to you and, through you, to the CPC, the government and the people of the PRC on the occasion of the 61st birthday of the PRC.

The founding of the PRC marked an event which brought about a radical turn in the history of China and the life of the Chinese people and they have effected new world-startling changes in the political, economic, cultural and all other fields over the past 61 years.

The Chinese people are now waging a dynamic struggle to build a comprehensively well-off socialist society on the basis of the scientific outlook on development under the guidance of the CPC with Comrade Hu Jintao as general secretary.

The Korean people are pleased with this and sincerely wish your people greater successes in their cause of building a socialist state with Chinese characteristics.

The DPRK-China friendship provided by the leaders of the elder generation of the two countries has steadily grown stronger generation after generation and century after century, standing all tests of history.

Expressing belief that the traditional DPRK-China relations of friendship and cooperation would grow stronger thanks to the concerted efforts of the two parties, governments and peoples, we wish the PRC prosperity and your people happiness.