Video>> President Hu meets DPRK official Jang Song Thaek
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Chinese President Hu Jintao (R, front) meets with a delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) headed by Jang Song Thaek (L, front), chief of the central administrative department of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 17, 2012. Jang, also a member of the WPK Political Bureau and vice-chairman of the National Defense Commission, is in Beijing to attend a meeting of the joint steering committee for developing and managing the Rason Economic and Trade Zone and the Hwanggumphyong and Wihwa Islands Economic Zone in the DPRK. (Xinhua/Ma Zhancheng)
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BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- President Hu Jintao said Friday that China is ready to work with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to lift their traditional friendly and cooperative relationship to a new level.
Hu made the remark as he met with a DPRK delegation headed by Jang Song Thaek, chief of the central administrative department of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).
Jang, also a member of the WPK Political Bureau and vice-chairman of the National Defense Commission, is in Beijing to attend a meeting of the joint steering committee for developing and managing the Rason Economic and Trade Zone and the Hwanggumphyong and Wihwa Islands Economic Zone in the DPRK.
Hu said during the meeting that recent years have seen rapid growth in China-DPRK trade and economic cooperation and remarkable results in cooperation on trade and investment.
The president expressed a wish for both sides to fully use their own advantages by exploring new ways of cooperation, advancing key cooperation and development of the economic zones, and fostering new growth spots to benefit the people of the two countries.
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