The message noted that the two countries have supported and closely cooperated with each other in various fields including politics, economy and culture for the past 75 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations.

It is an important duty for the diplomatic field of the two countries to steadily consolidate and develop the DPRK-China friendship and jointly and dynamically promote the socialist cause under the present complicated international situation, it said.

Choe in the message hoped that the Chinese people would achieve fresher successes in their efforts for achieving the prosperity of the Chinese nation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China with Xi Jinping as its core.