On October 9, 2015, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) Kim Jong Un on the 70th anniversary of the founding of the WPK.
Xi Jinping said in the message that on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the WPK, I, on behalf of the CPC Central Committee and in my own name, extend warm congratulations to you and through you to the Central Committee of the WPK, all its members and all people of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Xi Jinping said that under the leadership of great late leader Kim Il Sung and late General Secretary Kim Jong Il, the WPK has led the DPRK people to realize national independence and liberation of the people and make remarkable achievements in the cause of socialist revolution and construction in the DPRK after overcoming numerous difficulties. Over these years, First Secretary Kim Jong Un, carrying forward the will of President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il, has led the WPK and the DPRK people to achieve positive progress in developing the economy, improving people's livelihood and the like. I sincerely wish that the DPRK people, under the leadership of the WPK headed by First Secretary Kim Jong Un, would keep making new and greater achievements in the cause of DPRK-style socialist construction.
Xi Jinping emphasized that the China-DPRK friendship enjoys glorious tradition. We are willing to make joint efforts with the DPRK comrades to well maintain, consolidate and develop bilateral friendship in the interest of the two countries and peoples, so as to play a positive and constructive role in maintaining regional as well as world peace and stability.
In the end, Xi Jinping wholeheartedly wished the WPK constant development, the DPRK prosperity, and the China-DPRK friendship passing down from generation to generation.