(April, May 1957)

Respected Comrade Chairman Voroshilov:

Your visit to our country this time is an honor for the Chinese people and a major event in the ever-developing friendly relations between our two countries. On behalf of the Chinese people, the Chinese government, and the Communist Party of China, I extend to you and the comrades accompanying you on your visit the warmest welcome and fraternal respect.

Under the leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the great Soviet people have opened up a glorious path of socialist revolution for the proletariat of the world and have set a great example for all mankind in building socialism and communism. Inspired and supported by the Soviet people, the Chinese people are striving forward along the path of the great October Socialist Revolution.

The people of China and the Soviet Union have a profound fraternal friendship. In the cause of the Chinese revolution and construction, the Soviet people have given us the greatest sympathy and support. Please allow me to express my heartfelt gratitude to you, and through you to the Soviet people, the Soviet government, and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Comrade Chairman, you are a representative of the great Soviet people and the closest friend of the Chinese people. We are deeply convinced that your visit will further enhance the great friendship between the people of China and the Soviet Union and will be conducive to promoting the noble cause of world peace and human progress.

Long live the unbreakable fraternal friendship between the people of China and the Soviet Union!
Long live the great Soviet people!
Long live the unity of the socialist camp headed by the Soviet Union!
Long live world peace!

Dear Comrade Chairman Voroshilov,
Dear Soviet Comrades,
Comrades, friends:

Today, we are gathered here with the representatives of our great ally, Comrade Voroshilov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, and other Soviet guests, and we feel extremely happy.

Comrade Voroshilov is one of the outstanding leaders of the Soviet state and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. For decades, he has made unremitting efforts and outstanding contributions to the victory of the October Socialist Revolution, to the strengthening of the Soviet national defense, and to the development of the cause of communism. Comrade Voroshilov is the closest comrade and friend of the Chinese people. His visit to our country has brought us the fraternal friendship of the great Soviet people. On behalf of the Chinese people, the Chinese government, and the Communist Party of China, I extend a warm welcome to our distinguished guests.

Forty years ago, under the leadership of the great revolutionary teacher Lenin and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Soviet people, as pioneers of the new world, established the first socialist state. This was a turning point in human history. For forty years, the Soviet people have not only carried out brilliant socialist construction at home, but have also made unparalleled contributions to the cause of peace and progress throughout the world. The working people of the whole world see in the Soviet people the bright path to their own liberation and the construction of a happy human society. It is precisely along the path of the October Socialist Revolution that the Chinese people have achieved today's victory and achievements. The Chinese people have always regarded the Chinese revolution as a continuation of the great October Socialist Revolution, and take this as a great honor.

In the process of striving for national liberation, the Chinese people have received the fraternal sympathy and support of the Soviet people. After the victory of the Chinese revolution, the Soviet Union gave comprehensive and enormous assistance to China's socialist construction. These are things that the Chinese people will never forget. I would like to take this opportunity to express once again, on behalf of the Chinese people and the Chinese government, my heartfelt gratitude to the Soviet people and the Soviet government.

The Soviet people have accumulated extremely rich experience in the struggle for socialist revolution and in the long-term construction of socialism and communism. This experience is a great wealth for the working people of the whole world. In the past revolutionary struggle and in the current cause of building socialism, the Chinese people have learned many valuable things from the Soviet Union. In the future, the Chinese people will continue to strengthen the study of the advanced experience of the Soviet Union in order to accelerate China's socialist construction.

The great people of China and the Soviet Union are the closest brothers and the most reliable comrades-in-arms. In the noble cause of strengthening the unity of the socialist camp, safeguarding world peace, and promoting human progress, we Chinese people stand firmly together with the Soviet people. The imperialist aggressive forces are always trying every possible means to provoke and undermine the unity and friendly relations between our two countries. But facts have proved that their conspiracies will never succeed at any time. There is no force in the world that can separate us. The friendship of the eight hundred million people of China and the Soviet Union is eternal and unbreakable.

Let us raise our glasses,

To the unbreakable fraternal friendship between the people of China and the Soviet Union,

To the further consolidation and strengthening of the great unity of the socialist family headed by the Soviet Union,

To the ever-growing friendly and cooperative relations between all peace-loving and freedom-loving countries and peoples,

To world peace,

To the more brilliant achievements of Soviet communist construction,

To the health and longevity of Chairman Voroshilov!

Dear Comrade Voroshilov,
Dear Comrade Ambassador,
Comrades, friends:

Today, after Chairman Voroshilov and his entourage have made friendly visits to various parts of China, we are gathered together with them again, and we feel particularly cordial and happy.

With great enthusiasm and tireless energy, Chairman Voroshilov visited many places in our country for nearly twenty days, had cordial meetings with the broad masses of workers, peasants, students, and people from all walks of life in our country, and conveyed the fraternal feelings of the Soviet people to hundreds of millions of Chinese people. All this is a great encouragement to the Chinese people and has left a deep and unforgettable impression on the Chinese people.

During these days, the whole world has once again seen the rock-solid unity and close and profound friendship between the people of China and the Soviet Union. This unity and friendship is not only a favorable factor in the cause of socialist and communist construction in our two countries, but also an important part of the unity of socialist countries, and a reliable guarantee for the cause of world peace and human progress. The Chinese people, like the Soviet people, will continue to do everything in their power to continuously consolidate and develop the unity, friendship, and cooperative relations between our two countries.

Chairman Voroshilov will soon conclude his friendly visit to China. I would like to take this opportunity to express once again, on behalf of the Chinese people, my deep gratitude to him, and sincerely ask him to bring the most sincere friendship of the Chinese people to all the Soviet people.

Let us raise our glasses:

To the increasing prosperity and strength of our great ally, the Soviet Union,

To the new achievements of the great Soviet people in the cause of building communism and safeguarding world peace,

To the health of the leading comrades of the Soviet government and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,

To the unbreakable fraternal friendship between the people of China and the Soviet Union,

To the great unity of the socialist family headed by the Soviet Union,

To world peace,

To the health and longevity of Comrade Voroshilov!

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Dear Comrade Voroshilov:
Comrades, friends:

After Comrade Voroshilov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, and his entourage made a cordial and friendly visit to various parts of our country for more than twenty days, they continued their friendly visits to the Republic of Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Now they are about to leave our country for a visit to the Mongolian People's Republic, and we bid them farewell with deep reluctance.

Comrade Voroshilov's visit to China has written a new and brilliant page in the glorious history of Sino-Soviet friendly relations. He brought the fraternal friendship of the Soviet people to the Chinese people, and his enthusiastic meetings with the broad masses of the Chinese people once again vividly demonstrated the long-standing profound friendship between the people of China and the Soviet Union. We hope that Comrade Voroshilov will bring the most sincere friendly wishes of the Chinese people to all the Soviet people.

Comrade Voroshilov! As you are about to leave us, please allow me to express, once again, on behalf of the Chinese people, the Chinese government, and the Communist Party of China, my greatest gratitude to you, and through you to the Soviet people, the Soviet government, and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Although we are temporarily separated, the hearts of the people of China and the Soviet Union will always be closely linked together.

Dear Comrade Chairman! I wish you good health, a safe journey, and greater achievements in the noble cause of promoting the prosperity and happiness of the Soviet people and safeguarding world peace.

Long live the eternal and unbreakable friendship between the people of China and the Soviet Union!
Long live the great unity of the socialist countries headed by the Soviet Union!
Long live world peace!