Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- A DPRK book and photo exhibition took place at Jilin Yuwen Middle School on August 9 to mark the first anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's historic visit to China.

On display at the exhibition hall were works of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, photos on Kim Jong Il's visit to China last year and his Songun leadership feats as well as books and photos introducing the Korean people in their drive to build a thriving socialist nation.

Present at the opening ceremony were officials and citizens of Jilin City, teachers and students of the school, the consul general and members of the DPRK Consulate General in Shenyang, members of the Exhibition General Bureau delegation and Koreans in China.

The participants laid a floral basket before the statue of the President at the school and made a bow.

Speeches were made at the ceremony.

The deputy mayor of the Jilin City People's Government of China said China and the DPRK are friendly neighbors linked by the same mountain and rivers. The peoples of the two countries forged the feelings of deep friendship in blood in the course of their joint protracted revolutionary struggle, he noted.

Jilin City is symbolic of the Sino-DPRK friendship as it is a place where Kim Il Sung, the great leader of the Korean people and a close friend, conducted his revolutionary activities and which is associated with the activities of Kim Jong Il, he said.

The city will as ever boost exchange and cooperation in various fields with the DPRK and positively contribute to developing the traditional relations of friendship between the peoples of the two countries, he stressed.