Present there on invitation were Wang Dongming, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China, and officials of Chinese relevant sectors including the Foreign Ministry, the International Liaison Department of the C.C., Communist Party of China (CPC), the Central Military Commission, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Ministry of Industry and IT.

On hand were DPRK Ambassador to China Ri Ryong Nam and staff members of his embassy.

Speeches were made there.

Ri Ryong Nam said that the traditional DPRK-China friendship, which was provided by the leaders of the elder generation of the two countries and stood all sorts of ordeals and difficulties of history, is now being invariably consolidated and developed generation after generation thanks to the deep trust and close relationship between the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un and Comrade Xi Jinping.

The ambassador wished the Chinese people steady successes in the struggle to achieve the great prosperity of the Chinese nation under the leadership of the CPC with General Secretary Xi Jinping as its core this year marking the 75th birthday of the People's Republic of China.

Wang Dongming said that the traditional China-DPRK friendship, steadily deepened in the historic course of socialist construction and verified in the change of international situation, is a precious asset common to the peoples of the two countries.

He stressed that as a friendly neighbor, the Chinese people sincerely hope that under the guidance of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) headed by General Secretary Kim Jong Un, the Korean people would achieve steady and fresh, bigger successes in the struggle to implement the resolutions of the 8th WPK Congress and the plenary meetings of the Party Central Committee.