N. Korea leader meets with Hu during China trip
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August 31, 2010, Tuesday
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President Hu Jintao held talks last Friday with North Korea's top leader Kim Jong Il in Changchun, the capital city of northeast China's Jilin Province.
At the invitation of Hu, Kim paid a five-day unofficial visit to China that ended yesterday.
Hu said that China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are increasing exchanges and cooperation in various fields. The two sides have maintained close communication and coordination on issues of the Korean Peninsula and the region.
Hu said China is ready to work with North Korea to carefully safeguard and develop friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries.
Hu put forward three proposals to strengthen relations between the two countries and their ruling parties.
First, the two sides should maintain high-level contact. Leaders of the two sides should continue regular communication in various forms.
Second, the two sides should advance trade and economic cooperation. China is ready to grow trade and economic cooperation on the principles of government guidance with enterprises playing a major role, market operation, and mutual benefits for win-win results.
Third, the two sides should strengthen strategic communication because the regional and international situation is undergoing profound and complicated changes.
Kim visited northeastern cities of Jilin, Changchun and Harbin, once centers of heavy industry under the planned economy that have tried to remake themselves under market competition.
Those cities are important to North Koreans as places where Kim's father and revolutionary patriarch Kim Il Sung went to school and worked to oust Japan, the region's colonial occupier in the first half of the 20th century.
Kim said his visit gave North Koreans another in-depth experience of the preciousness of the DPRK-China friendship created by older generations of revolutionaries from both countries.
During his trip, Kim visited enterprises of machinery manufacturing, railway transportation, chemical industry and food processing, as well as some agricultural projects. State television showed Kim visiting a field with large orange pumpkins.
He said Jilin was a place where he once lived, and he was greatly touched and impressed to see its many changes and development when he came back this time.
Kim said the two sides should strengthen friendly exchanges and cooperation. He said the two sides should also attach importance to exchange and mutual learning of their young people, to continuously push the development of traditional friendship between the two countries.
During their talks, Hu and Kim briefed each other on the internal situation and development plan of their respective countries.
Hu emphasized that it is a basic experience of China's reform and opening-up to unswervingly adhere to the central task of economic development, push forward all causes of socialist modernization in an all-round way and continuously improve the livelihood of the people.
Hu said economic development calls for self-dependence but cannot be achieved without cooperating with the outside world.
Hu said China respects and supports the active measures that North Korea has taken to maintain stability, develop its economy and improve the livelihood of its people.
Kim said China has rapidly developed with strong vitality in all fields since it began to reform and open up to the outside world.
Kim said his country is now focusing on developing its economy and improving its people's livelihood.
The visit was the second Kim has made to China this year, after visiting Beijing in May.
At the invitation of Hu, Kim paid a five-day unofficial visit to China that ended yesterday.
Hu said that China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are increasing exchanges and cooperation in various fields. The two sides have maintained close communication and coordination on issues of the Korean Peninsula and the region.
Hu said China is ready to work with North Korea to carefully safeguard and develop friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries.
Hu put forward three proposals to strengthen relations between the two countries and their ruling parties.
First, the two sides should maintain high-level contact. Leaders of the two sides should continue regular communication in various forms.
Second, the two sides should advance trade and economic cooperation. China is ready to grow trade and economic cooperation on the principles of government guidance with enterprises playing a major role, market operation, and mutual benefits for win-win results.
Third, the two sides should strengthen strategic communication because the regional and international situation is undergoing profound and complicated changes.
Kim visited northeastern cities of Jilin, Changchun and Harbin, once centers of heavy industry under the planned economy that have tried to remake themselves under market competition.
Those cities are important to North Koreans as places where Kim's father and revolutionary patriarch Kim Il Sung went to school and worked to oust Japan, the region's colonial occupier in the first half of the 20th century.
Kim said his visit gave North Koreans another in-depth experience of the preciousness of the DPRK-China friendship created by older generations of revolutionaries from both countries.
During his trip, Kim visited enterprises of machinery manufacturing, railway transportation, chemical industry and food processing, as well as some agricultural projects. State television showed Kim visiting a field with large orange pumpkins.
He said Jilin was a place where he once lived, and he was greatly touched and impressed to see its many changes and development when he came back this time.
Kim said the two sides should strengthen friendly exchanges and cooperation. He said the two sides should also attach importance to exchange and mutual learning of their young people, to continuously push the development of traditional friendship between the two countries.
During their talks, Hu and Kim briefed each other on the internal situation and development plan of their respective countries.
Hu emphasized that it is a basic experience of China's reform and opening-up to unswervingly adhere to the central task of economic development, push forward all causes of socialist modernization in an all-round way and continuously improve the livelihood of the people.
Hu said economic development calls for self-dependence but cannot be achieved without cooperating with the outside world.
Hu said China respects and supports the active measures that North Korea has taken to maintain stability, develop its economy and improve the livelihood of its people.
Kim said China has rapidly developed with strong vitality in all fields since it began to reform and open up to the outside world.
Kim said his country is now focusing on developing its economy and improving its people's livelihood.
The visit was the second Kim has made to China this year, after visiting Beijing in May.
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