Updated 1530 KST to include details from KCTV coverage of the event

North Korea on Thursday evening paid bombastic tribute to its 70-year-long relationship with China and the country’s current leader Xi Jinping with a one-time special “grand mass gymnastics and artistic performance,” state media reported.

In a performance held to mark a landmark visit to the country by President Xi Jinping this week— the first of its kind by a Chinese leader in over ten years — thousands of North Koreans were reported to have participated in the special mass games event, which took place at the May