Also arriving here were a delegation of Chinese publishers headed by Yan Xiaohong, vice director-general of the General Administration of Press and Publication of China, and Kanji Inoki, president of the Inoki Genom Joint Co., Ltd. of Japan, and his party.

On the same day Wan Yongxiang, former Chinese ambassador to the DPRK, and his party, and a delegation of the All-China Journalists Association led by Huang Libiao, president of China Women Newspaper, left here for home.