Present there on invitation were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, Choe Chang Sik, minister of Public Health who doubles as chairman of the Central Committee of the DPRK-China Friendship Association, Kim Song Nam, vice department director of the C.C., the Workers' Party of Korea, Kim Hyong Jun, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, So Kil Bok, vice-minister of Foreign Trade, Kim Jin Bom, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, and officials concerned.

Chinese Ambassador to the DPRK Liu Hongcai and his embassy officials attended.

Liu Hongcai said in his speech that it served as a foundation for developing the bilateral relations that Premier Zhou Enlai and President Kim Il Sung inked the treaty.

He referred to the fact that the two countries have cooperated with each other in various fields including politics, economy and culture supporting each other on the principle of the treaty and in its spirit.

He expressed the will of the party and government of China to propel the development of the Sino-DPRK friendly relations in the spirit of inheriting the tradition, facing up to the future, building good-neighborly friendship and strengthening cooperation.

Choe Chang Sik said in his speech that 51 years ago, President Kim Il Sung together with Premier Zhou Enlai provided a legal foundation for comprehensively developing the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries.

It was the last instructions of General Secretary Kim Jong Il and a consistent stand of the WPK and the DPRK government to boost the DPRK-China friendly and cooperative relations, he said.

The DPRK-China friendship will steadily develop generation after generation as there is the dear respected Kim Jong Un.

The Chinese consul general in Chongjin hosted a reception on Tuesday.