Dai Bingguo said the Korean people lost their great leader and the Chinese people lost their great friend, adding General Secretary Kim Jong Il would be always alive in the hearts of the Korean people and the Chinese people and they will miss him forever.

Dai Bingguo noted that the Sino-DPRK friendship associated with the wisdom and energies of the leaders of the several generations of the two countries is very precious assets for the two countries and common strategic property as it is the friendship sealed in blood which stood the test of history.

It is the consistent strategic policy of the Chinese party and government to cement the Sino-DPRK friendship and there will be neither change nor vacillation in implementing the policy, he stressed.