Pyongyang, September 11 (KCNA) -- The DPRK embassy in Beijing hosted a reception on September 8 on the occasion of the 77th founding anniversary of the DPRK.

Present there on invitation were Zhang Qingwei, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China, and officials of the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme People's Court, the Ministry of State Security, the People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and the Association for International Friendly Contact.

Present there were Ri Ryong Nam, DPRK ambassador to China, and his embassy members.

Speeches were made there.

Ri Ryong Nam referred to the feats President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il performed in founding and developing the DPRK and accomplishing the socialist cause and the fact that under the outstanding leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un the daring mettle and limitless power of the DPRK are fully demonstrated and a new era of comprehensive national rejuvenation, in which the long-cherished desire of the people is translated into shining reality, is being ushered in.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un 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 and achieved immortal feats in further strengthening the political trust and strategic cooperation between the two parties and the two countries and winning victory in the common socialist cause through the meeting and talks with Comrade Xi Jinping, he stressed.

Zhang Qingwei said that for the past dozens of years since the DPRK was founded on September 9, 1948, the DPRK people have ceaselessly achieved new successes in socialist construction under the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung, Chairman Kim Jong Il and the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un.

Zhang Qingwei sincerely wished that the fraternal DPRK people would certainly and successfully accomplish the tasks set forth by the Eighth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea and further open up a new phase of the socialist cause in line with the blueprint unfolded by the incoming Ninth Congress of the WPK. -0-