On the morning of July 11, Li Qiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, held talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing with Park Tae-sung, member of the Standing Committee of the Central Political Bureau of the Workers' Party of Korea, Vice Chairman of the State Council, and Prime Minister of the Cabinet on an official visit to China. Li Qiang said that China and North Korea are friends and neighbors who share a common destiny and watch and help each other. At the beginning of last month, General Secretary Xi Jinping paid a state visit to North Korea, reached a series of important agreements with General Secretary Kim Jong-un on deepening Sino-North Korea relations, and jointly issued strategic guidance. Maintaining, consolidating, and developing Sino-North Korea relations has always been the unswerving policy of the Chinese Party and government. China is ready to implement the important consensus reached by the top leaders of the two parties and the two countries with North Korea, continue to uphold the spirit of the Sino-North Korea Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, have close high-level contacts, consolidate mutual political trust, expand practical cooperation, better benefit the peoples of the two countries, and make positive contributions to the peaceful development of the region and the world at large.

On the morning of July 11, Li Qiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, held talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing with Park Tae-sung, member of the Standing Committee of the Central Political Bureau of the Workers' Party of Korea, Vice Chairman of the State Council, and Prime Minister of the Cabinet on an official visit to China. Li Qiang said that China and North Korea are friends and neighbors who share a common destiny and watch and help each other. At the beginning of last month, General Secretary Xi Jinping paid a state visit to North Korea, reached a series of important agreements with General Secretary Kim Jong-un on deepening Sino-North Korea relations, and jointly issued strategic guidance. Maintaining, consolidating, and developing Sino-North Korea relations has always been the unswerving policy of the Chinese Party and government. China is ready to implement the important consensus reached by the top leaders of the two parties and the two countries with North Korea, continue to uphold the spirit of the Sino-North Korea Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, have close high-level contacts, consolidate mutual political trust, expand practical cooperation, better benefit the peoples of the two countries, and make positive contributions to the peaceful development of the region and the world at large.