At the invitation of 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 (DPRK), Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese president, arrived in Pyongyang on Monday for a state visit to the DPRK.

Ahead of the visit, a signed article by Xi was published in Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the DPRK. Here are some of his key quotes.