Pyongyang, October 13 (KCNA) -- The DPRK embassy in Beijing hosted a reception on October 9 on the occasion the 80th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Present there on invitation were Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau and member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China,  officials of the International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the State Office for International Development and Cooperation and the People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and other officials concerned.

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

Speeches were made at the reception.

Ri Ryong Nam said that President Kim Il Sung accomplished the cause of party building before the nation-building and army-building after the liberation and wisely led the Party-building work in the whole period of his revolutionary leadership and that Chairman Kim Jong Il provided the guidelines for the Party-building of the leader and carried them out without fail.

He said that the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un clarified the outstanding idea and theory for preserving forever the noble ideas and character of the WPK including the five-point line of Party building in the new era, and is energetically leading the historic cause for strengthening the whole Party and achieving the comprehensive national rejuvenation.

The traditional DPRK-China friendly and cooperative relations provided and cultivated with much care and handed down as a precious strategic legacy by the leaders of the elder generations of the two countries are steadily developing onto a higher stage under the intention and leadership of the top leaders of the two parties and two countries, he noted.

Cai Qi said that under the seasoned leadership of the respected Comrade General Secretary, the WPK has consolidated the harmonious whole with the popular masses as firm as a rock, achieved many successes by directing efforts to strengthening the whole Party, developing economy and improving the people's living standards, and the Korean-style socialist cause is advancing more dynamically.

He hoped that the DPRK people would achieve steady success in socialist construction and significantly greet the Ninth Congress of the WPK under the leadership of the Party headed by General Secretary Kim Jong Un. -0-