Present there were officials of the China Association for International Friendly Contact, the Beijing Association for International Friendly Contact and the China-Korea Friendship Hongxing Farm and families of those related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle.

Present there on invitation were the DPRK ambassador to China and his embassy officials.

Li Xiaohua, vice-chairman of the China Association for International Friendly Contact, Feng Yila, a daughter of Feng Zhongyun, who is related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, and Guan Jianguo, director of the farm, and others spoke at the meeting.

The speakers praised Kim Il Sung as the great and outstanding leader of the Korean people. They referred to the glorious revolutionary history of the President who devoted his all to the national liberation, socialist construction and the independent reunification of the country.

He is revered by the Chinese people as he provided the great Sino-DPRK friendship and performed undying feats in strengthening it together with the proletarian revolutionaries of the elder generation including Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, they noted.

They recalled with deep emotion his visit to the farm 36 years ago and the warm loving care and benevolence he had shown for the families of those related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle.

The Sino-DPRK friendship is steadily growing stronger thanks to General Secretary Kim Jong Il, they said, vowing to make positive efforts to glorify the bilateral friendship, the precious assets of the two peoples, generation after generation.