Comrade Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and President of the People's Republic of China, on a state visit to the DPRK, laid a flower basket at the Friendship Tower on June 9.

Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, together with his wife Ri Sol Ju came to the Friendship Tower to greet Comrade Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan.

Accompanying Comrade Xi Jinping were Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau, member of the Secretariat and director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee and minister of Foreign Affairs, and other entourage members and Wang Yajun, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK.

Present there were Kim Jae Ryong and Ri Il Hwan, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and secretaries of the WPK Central Committee, and other leading officials of the Party and the government of the DPRK.

The guard of honour of the Korean People's Army lined up in front of the Friendship Tower filled with the respect for the martyrs of the Chinese People's Volunteers, fine sons and daughters of the Chinese nation and true comrades-in-arms of the Korean people.

The national anthems of the PRC and the DPRK were played.

A flower basket in the name of Comrade Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President of the PRC, was laid there.

Written on the ribbon of the flower basket were letters reading "The martyrs of the Chinese People's Volunteers will be immortal".

The top leaders of the two countries, together with the participants, paid a silent tribute to the memory of the CPV martyrs who displayed the matchless bravery and self-sacrificing spirit in the Korean people's sacred war to repel the imperialists' armed invasion.

There took place a march-past of the KPA guard of honour.