Present at the meeting were families of Chinese related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, the DPRK ambassador to China and his embassy members.

The participants laid a floral basket and bouquets at the portraits of smiling President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il and paid tribute to them.

Yu Ming, son of Li Zade, Zhou Wei, daughter of Zhou Baozhong, and the son of Shang Yue said that their yearning for Kim Jong Il grows stronger at every return of December.

They said that Kim Jong Il showed warm love and benevolence for the families of Chinese related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle in his lifetime and performed immortal feats for happiness of the Korean people and development of China-DPRK friendship.

Zhang Jinlu, daughter of Zhang Wei-hua, and sons of Feng Zhongyun and Wang Xiaoming praised Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un for achieving shining successes in economic construction and improvement of the people's living standard and in the field of diplomacy by wisely leading the Korean people.

They said that Kim Jong Un met with President Xi Jinping several times to put the China-DPRK friendly relations on a new high level, expressing their will to exert positive efforts for the development of friendly relations between the two countries in the future.