They included the president of the People's Republic of China (PRC) who is general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and his wife, the president of the Russian Federation, the president of the Lao People's Democratic Republic who is general secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and his wife, the president of the Syrian Arab Republic and his wife, the president of the Republic of Singapore and her husband, the president of the Republic of Tajikistan, the president of Turkmenistan, the president of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam who is general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Also among them were the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the PRC who is a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee who is a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, the head of the International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee, the chairman of "A Just Russia", a member of the Political Bureau and the permanent secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, the secretary general of the International Kim Il Sung Prize Council and the International Kim Jong Il Prize Council, the director-general of the UN Office at Vienna, the director-general of UNESCO, the president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, and the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist).

Meanwhile, the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea received the New Year's card from the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist).