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Greetings to respected Comrade Kim Jong Un from Chinese President
  The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, received a message of greetings from Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and President of the People's Republic of China, on the 9th.
  The message extended warm congratulations and heartfelt best wishes to Comrade Kim Jong Un, the WPK, and the DPRK government and people on behalf of the Communist Party of China, and the
Chinese government and people and in the name of General Secretary Xi Jinping on the occasion of the 77th founding anniversary of the DPRK.
  The message said that during the 77 years, the WPK has united and led the Korean people and made strenuous efforts to promote the constant development of the socialist cause of Korea in all fields.
  In recent years, the Korean people, under the leadership of the WPK headed by General Secretary Kim Jong Un, have achieved a lot of pleasant successes by waging a vigorous struggle to fully carry out goals and tasks presented at the Eighth Congress of the WPK, the message said and expressed the belief that the Korean people would greet the Ninth Congress of the WPK with high spirit and extraordinary successes and surely open up a new chapter in the cause of building Korean-style socialism.
  The message said China and the DPRK are traditional and friendly neighbours which have common boundary with a mountain and a river between them, and continued:
  It is a consistent and steadfast strategic policy of the Chinese party and government to wonderfully defend, consolidate and develop the China-DPRK relations.
  Some time ago, you visited China and participated in the commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. I met you again and made a joint blueprint for development of the relations between the two parties and between the two countries.
  The Chinese side is ready to strengthen the strategic communication and make frequent visits and close contact with the DPRK side and promote the China-DPRK friendship and the cause of socialism of the two countries together and thus make a greater contribution to peace and development of the region and, furthermore, to those of the world.
  The message wished the DPRK prosperity and its people happiness and well-being.