President Xi Jinping in the message expressed his heartfelt thanks to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un for sending enthusiastic and sincere message of greeting on the occasion of the 74th founding anniversary of the PRC.

Over the past 74 years after the birth of new China, the PRC has cleared poverty and backwardness, built a comprehensively well-off society on a full scale and entered a new course of promoting the building of a powerful country and national prosperity in a comprehensive way through the Chinese-style modernization, the message said, and went on:

This year is the first year of implementing the spirit of the 20th Party Congress.

The Communist Party of China and the peoples of different nations of China are making a vigorous advance towards the second century target, struggling in unity with firm confidence.

I sincerely wish the fraternal Korean people fresh and bigger successes in the cause of building socialism under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea headed by Comrade General Secretary.

China and the DPRK are friendly neighbors linked by the same mountain and rivers and the traditional friendship between the two countries is growing stronger with the passage of time.

Under the international and regional situation in which serious and complicated changes are made, I am ready to, together with you, make greater contributions to encouraging the China-DPRK relations to advance and develop along with the times, providing the peoples of the two countries with better welfare and safeguarding the regional peace, stability, development and prosperity.

Xi Jinping in the message wished Kim Jong Un good health and smoothness in his work and the DPRK prosperity and the Korean people happiness and wellbeing.