The message said that this year the two countries are powerfully demonstrating the vitality of the bilateral friendship that has stood all sorts of trials of history over the past six decades, while having significant joint celebrations of the "year of DPRK-China friendship."

Hoping that the cooperation between the foreign ministries of the two countries for the development of the traditional DPRK-China friendly relations would continue to be boosted in the days ahead, the message wished the Chinese people greater success in the work to build a socialist state with Chinese characteristics.