Present there were families 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 there.

Families of Zhang Wei-hua, Zhou Baozhong, Feng Zhongyun and Li Zade said that Kim Jong Il developed the Workers' Party of Korea into an ever-victorious iron-willed Party and an invincible revolutionary Party enjoying absolute support and trust of the people and trained the Korean people into an independent people with transparent revolutionary faith and will. They noted that Kim Jong Il regarded it as his lifetime motto to believe in the people as in Heaven, led the socialist cause of Juche to victory and devoted his all to implementing the behests of Kim Il Sung,.

The great exploits of Kim Jong Il and the warm love he showed for the families related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle will be deeply cherished in the minds of the younger generation, they said, adding that not only the Korean people but also the world progressives are boundlessly revering the peerlessly great man.

The revolutionary friendship forged by President Kim Il Sung with their parents is being given steady continuity by Chairman Kim Jong Il and General Secretary Kim Jong Un, they noted.