国内英语新闻:Chinese embassy in DPRK celebrates Chinese National Day

PYONGYANG, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese embassy in Pyongyang held a reception on Wednesday to celebrate the 61st anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Speaking at the reception, Chinese ambassador Liu Hongcai congratulated the successful conference of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and the re-election of Kim Jong Il as party general secretary.

He said China will steadily boost the friendly and cooperative relationship between China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to a higher level.

Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of DPRK's Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, said in his speech that the Chinese people successfully built a Socialist state with Chinese characteristics and achieved many successes in the construction of a harmonious society under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.

To steadily consolidate and develop the DPRK-China friendly and cooperative relationship is the consistent stand of the WPK and the DPRK government, he said.

Yang also expressed the belief that the traditional friendship and bilateral cooperation would grow stronger in the spirit of agreements reached between top leaders of the two countries.