CPC sends envoy to DPRK for party talks

Beijing will send a special envoy to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Friday, the International Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee said in a news release on Wednesday.

Song Tao, head of the department and an envoy of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, will fly to the DPRK on Friday. During the visit, he will report on the Party's 19th National Congress as part of China's party-to-party messenger diplomacy.

Song, a former vice-foreign minister who is now in charge of the Party's diplomacy with its foreign counterparts, visited Laos and Vietnam as the general secretary's envoy in January 2016 and November.