Pyongyang, December 25 (KCNA) -- Li Yuanchao, member of the Political Bureau, member of the Secretariat and head of the Organization Department of the C.C., Communist Party of China, paid a condolatory visit to the DPRK embassy in Beijing on Friday to express deep condolences over the demise of leader Kim Jong Il.

Accompanying him were Shen Yueyue, permanent deputy head of the Organization Department of the C.C., CPC, Liu Jieyi, deputy head of the International Liaison Department of the C.C., CPC, Song Tao, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of China, Deng Shengming, secretary-general of the Organization Department of the C.C., CPC, and other officials of the Organization Department and the International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee and the Foreign Ministry of China.

Laid before the portrait of Kim Jong Il were wreaths in the name of the Organization Department of the C.C., CPC and its head.

They bowed three times before the portrait to express their deep condolences.

Li Yuanchao said that Kim Jong Il, the great leader of the Korean people and a great friend of the Chinese people, would always be alive in the hearts of the two peoples.

He expressed belief that the Korean people would achieve greater successes in their efforts to build a thriving country, closely rallied around the Workers' Party of Korea under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, vice-chairman of the WPK Central Military Commission, true to the behests of Kim Jong Il.

Earlier on Dec. 20 and 21, officials and personages of China and families of Chinese related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle paid condolatory visits to the DPRK embassy in Beijing and its consulate general in Shenyang.

They included Cheng Guoping, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of China, Liu Zhenmin, assistant to the foreign minister, Wu Dawei, special envoy of China for the Korean Peninsula Affairs, Wang Min, secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the CPC, Dai Yulin, secretary of the Dandong City Committee of the CPC, Wang Yonggui, director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Lieut. Gen. Zhang Xibo, commander of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in Hong Kong, Zeng Yinquan, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, He Zhiping, chief secretary of China Hong Kong Zhonghwa Energy Fund Commission, personages of the Foreign Ministry of China, the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the All-China Women's Federation, the People's Bank of China, the Association for Promotion of Development of Chinese Culture and Liaoning Province, and famil

ies of anti-Chinese revolutionary fighter Li Zade, anti-Japanese revolutionary martyr Zhang Weihua, and Feng Zhongyun and Zhou Baozhong, persons related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle.

Meanwhile, Chinese ambassadors to India, Laos, Nepal, Peru, Libya, Democratic Congo, Egypt, South Africa and France and their embassy officials paid condolatory visits to the DPRK missions in those countries.

Diplomatic envoys of 50 odd countries including Russia, Mongolia, Vietnam, Iran, Bangladesh, Venezuela, Equatorial Guinea, Kuwait, Libya, Guinea and Rwanda to Beijing visited the DPRK missions to express condolences.