JOIN HANDS FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT

"Development" and "cooperation" have been frequently brought up during talks between Xi and Kim.

During the state visit to the DPRK in 2019, Xi suggested that the two sides expand practical cooperation to bring more benefits to both peoples.

The Chinese side stands ready to enhance strategic communication, maintain close exchanges and cooperation with the DPRK, and join hands to promote the China-DPRK friendship and the socialist cause of the two countries, Xi said in a congratulatory message on the 77th founding anniversary of the DPRK in 2025.

On March 12, the international passenger trains connecting China and the DPRK began operating in both directions. On March 30, an Air China passenger plane from Beijing arrived in Pyongyang, marking the formal resumption of the Chinese carrier's passenger flight operations between the capitals of China and the DPRK.

More than 20 shops of DPRK chamber of commerce and companies have settled in the Guomenwan trade zone in the city of Dandong. At the international commodity fair held twice a year in Pyongyang, a dazzling array of Chinese goods are also favored by local people.

In early May, a group of Chinese students arrived in Pyongyang and started studying in universities including Kim Il Sung University; In February 2025, the DPRK delegation participated in the 9th Asian Winter Games held in Harbin in China.

From economic and trade exchanges to education and sports cooperation, China-DPRK exchanges and cooperation in various fields continued to deepen and has grown ever solid, bringing benefits to the peoples of both countries.

In recent years, party and government delegations from two countries have paid friendly visits to each other on many occasions, deepening inter-party exchanges and mutual learning of experiences in state governance, and promoting the steady and long-term development of the socialist cause of the two countries.

Both sides should enhance communication and coordination at all levels, and deepen inter-party communication and exchanges on governing experience, Xi said in a signed article on the DPRK's mainstream media before his state visit in 2019.

China-DPRK relations are vividly described in a Chinese song: "We share a great friendship; we share common ideals; which have united us with incomparable strength."