On the morning of October 4, 2009, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau, arrived in Pyongyang by special plane, kicking off his three-day official goodwill visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Premier Wen was greeted at the airport by General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and Chairman of the National Defense Commission of the DPRK Kim Jong Il.