The message said:

I received with pleasure news that Comrade Kim Jong Un was elected chairman of the WPK at its 7th Congress.

I extend warm congratulations to you and the Central Committee of the WPK on behalf of the C.C., CPC and on my own behalf.

The traditional Sino-DPRK friendship personally provided and cultivated by the leaders of the elder generation of the two countries with great care is the precious asset common to the two countries.

The Chinese party and government attach great importance to the Sino-DPRK relations.

We will make efforts together with the DPRK side to bring happiness to the two countries and their peoples and contribute to peace, stability and development in this region by steadily developing the Sino-DPRK friendship and cooperation, proceeding from the great phase of the Sino-DPRK relations.

I wish the Korean people fresh success in carrying out the cause of socialism under the leadership of the WPK headed by Chairman Kim Jong Un.