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

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

Speeches were made at the round-table talks.

Feng Songguang, son of Feng Zhongyun, said that Kim Il Sung liberated Korea groaning under the colonial hooves of the Japanese imperialists, defeated the U.S. imperialists' barbarous aggression and frustrated their wild ambition for world domination. In the struggle against imperialism, the generations of our grandfathers and fathers fought shoulder to shoulder with the Korean comrades and provided the unbreakable friendship, he added.

Li Zade's son Yu Ming expressed his ardent yearning for the President who showed boundless love and care for his family, saying that the revolutionary friendship between the President and their parents is deeply cherished in the minds of the younger generation. He expressed his will to make strenuous efforts to carry forward it and glorify the revolutionary traditions generation after generation.

Shang Xiaowei, son of Mentor Shang Yue, said that he can never forget the time when he met President Kim Il Sung on his first visit to the DPRK, adding that China and the DPRK are comrades-in-arms in the same trench today as in the past and that he would make a fresh contribution to the development of the friendly relations between the two countries in the new period.

Zhou Haiqiao, daughter of Zhou Baozhong's daughter, said that the traditional China-DPRK friendship personally provided and cultivated by the leaders of the elder generation is a precious common treasure of the two parties and peoples of the two countries, expressing the belief that Korean socialism would further prosper thanks to the wise leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who is creditably carrying forward the cause of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.