Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao urged North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un to enter into talks over the nuclear disarmament, reported Chinese State News Agency Xinhua Friday.
Li who is on a visit to North Korea had conveyed a message from Chinese President Xi Jinping to Kim, according to the Chinese state mouth piece.
"As a close neighbor of the Korean Peninsula, China will persist in the denuclearization of the peninsula, adhere to safeguarding the peace and stability on the peninsula and persist in using dialogue and consultation to resolve the problem,"Xinhua quoted Yuanchao as saying.
The vice president has reiterated Beijing's stance to work with all concerned parties to promote the six-party disarmament talks which included South and North Korea, the United States, Japan, Russia and China.
The North Korean leader has assured the visiting Chinese vice president to support China's efforts to resume the talks collapsed in 2008 when the Pyongyang government walked away from the deal.
China, Pyongyang's best ally has distanced itself from the North Korean government and had warned to isolate the country if it refuses to give up its nuclear ambitions.
Pyongyang held several nuclear and missile tests this year that brought severe objection from international communities including the United Nations.
Kim threatened U.S. as well as South Korea when the two countries criticized Pyongyang's nuclear and missile tests.
Due to the high-tension between the two nations, a jointly run factory park in North Korea's Kaesong city at the border was shut down. The two sides held a round of talks in recent weeks but yielded no results.