Kim Jong Il Pays Unofficial Visit to Northeastern and Huadong Regions of China

Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, paid an unofficial visit to the People's Republic of China from May 20 to 26 at the invitation of Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the PRC.
Kim Jong Il visited the Northeastern and Huadong regions of China.
Kim Jong Il visited Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province first.
He went round Lake Jingbo, a beauty spot in Northeast China, conducted by Dai Bingguo and other leading officials in Beijing and the locality.
Kim Jong Il then went to the Hailin Farm and its dairy farm.
The next leg of his visit was Changchun City, seat of Jilin Province.
He visited the Northeast Changchun Core Area Construction Planning Exhibition.
Looking round the exhibition, he highly praised the people of the province and city for working hard to achieve fresh successes in the socialist modernization drive as required by the new century.
He visited the FAW Jiefang Automotive Company Ltd.
Going round the car assembling shop and the truck assembling shop, he learned about modernization and production there.
Kim Jong Il visited Yangzhou City of Jiangsu Province, Huadong Area of China.
He visited an exhibition center of the Yangzhou Smart Valley, a solar energy science and technology company and a NC equipment company.
Kim Jong Il dropped in at an exhibition center of the Yangzhou Smart Valley to see typical goods produced by the Smart Valley.
Then he went round a solar energy science and technology company and a NC equipment company.
Going round a market in the city that day, he learned about variety and quality of goods there, including fruit, vegetable and edible oil, and mode of its management.
He visited Nanjing City, the capital of Jiangsu Province.
He visited the Nanjing Panda Electronics.
Noting that the Nanjing Panda Electronics that could produce simple communication equipment only in the past has developed into a large-scale comprehensive electronics complex, he highly estimated their successes.
Then, he commanded a bird's-eye view of Nanjing City.
Kim Jong Il expressed satisfaction over the results of his visit.