Present there were Vice-Chairmen of the Central Military Commission of the WPK Kim Jong Un and Ri Yong Ho, Member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of the WPK Central Committee Choe Thae Bok, Member of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and Vice-Premier of the Cabinet Kang Sok Ju, Alternate Member of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and Vice-Chairman of the NDC Jang Song Thaek, Alternate Members of the Political Bureau and Secretaries of the WPK Central Committee Kim Yong Il and Kim Yang Gon, First Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Kye Gwan and Chairman of the Joint Venture and Investment Committee Ri Su Yong.

The heads of the delegations presented gifts to Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un.

On the occasion Zhang Dejiang said it was a great event in the history of the bilateral relations that Premier Zhou Enlai and President Kim Il Sung signed the treaty on July 11, 1961 50 years ago.

He paid highest tribute to Kim Jong Il who has made an undying contribution to steadily boosting the Sino-DPRK friendly and cooperative relations.

The Chinese party and government will steadfastly carry forward the baton of the traditional and special Sino-DPRK friendship and honestly implement the wide-ranging agreements reached between the top leaders of the two countries, he noted.

Welcoming the DPRK visit of the Chinese friendship delegations, Kim Jong Il said over the past half a century since the treaty was concluded the two parties and the two governments have supported and closely cooperated with each other in political, military, economic, cultural and other fields in the spirit of the treaty and powerfully demonstrated before the world the tremendous vitality of the DPRK-China friendship which remains unchanged no matter how much water flow under the bridge and no matter how frequently a generation is replaced by another.

Kim Jong Il hosted a dinner for the guests.

Present there on invitation were Zhang Dejiang, member of the Political Bureau of the C.C., the Communist Party of China and vice-premier of the State Council, Li Shenglin, minister of Transport, Wang Yulin, governor of the Jilin Provincial People's Government, Liu Hongcai, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK, the deputy secretary-general of the State Council, Chen Jian, vice-minister of Commerce, the assistant to the Foreign Minister, Yang Yanyi, assistant to the head of the International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee, Wu Donghe, chairman of the China-Korea Friendship Association, and Jing Dunquan, vice-chairman of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries.

Present there were Kim Jong Un, Ri Yong Ho, Choe Thae Bok, Kang Sok Ju, Jang Song Thaek, Kim Yong Il, Kim Yang Gon, Kim Kye Gwan and Ri Su Yong.

The dinner proceeded in a friendly and amicable atmosphere.