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

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

Speeches were made there.

The vice-president of the China Association for International Friendly Contact said that Kim Il Sung, the founder of the party, state and army of the DPRK and the great leader of the Korean people, performed great exploits to go down in the history of the arduous struggle for achieving national independence and building power and socialist society. The President's was a revolutionary life, the speaker added.

He recalled that the President forged close relations with revolutionaries of the elder generation in China and positively developed them, noting that the Chinese people would always remember him..

Kim Il Sung will always live in the hearts of the peoples of the two countries, he stressed.

Feng Yila, daughter of Feng Zhongyun, a Chinese man related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, recollected with deep emotion that General Secretary Kim Jong Il and the dear respected Kim Jong Un bestowed profound benevolence upon her family even after the demise of the President.

She expressed hope that the Korean people would register signal successes in socialist construction by carrying out the behests of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il under the leadership of Kim Jong Un. She also expressed wish that the close friendship between the peoples of China and the DPRK would shine generation after generation.