List of international premieral trips made by Wen Jiabao

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This is a list of international trips made by Wen Jiabao, the premier of China since from March 2003 to March 2013.

The number of visits per country where he has travelled are:

  • One visit to: Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belarus, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, North Korea, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, the Republic of Congo, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, the United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, and Uzbekistan
  • Two visits to: Cambodia, Czech Republic, Egypt, India, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Portugal, Spain, South Korea, Tajikistan, and Vietnam
  • Three visits to: Laos and the United States
  • Four visits to: Belgium, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, and the United Kingdom
  • Six visits to: Germany
  • Seven visits to: Russia
World map highlighting countries visited by Wen Jiabao during his premiership.
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2003

Dates Country Location Details
29 April  Thailand Bangkok Wen attended the China-ASEAN special meeting on SARS. Met with Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and Singaporean Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. He also met with Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa.[1][2]
6–8 October  Indonesia Bali
7–10 December  United States New York City
Washington, D.C.
Boston		 [3]
10–12 December  Canada Ottawa Official visit. Wen held talks with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, and met with Canadian Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, Prime Minister-designate and Liberal Party leader Paul Martin, Senate President Dan Hays, and House of Representatives Speaker Peter Milliken.[4]
12–13 December  Mexico Mexico City Official visit. Wen held talks with Mexican President Vicente Fox, and met with Mexican Senate President Enrique Jackson and Chamber of Deputies First Vice President Arroyo.[5]
14 December  Spain Gran Canaria Technical stop. Wen spoke with Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar on the phone, and met with Canary Islands President Adán Martín Menis and Spanish Central Government Representative to the Canary Islands Lopez. He also visited the Canary Islands Port of La Luz.[6]
14–16 December  Ethiopia Addis Ababa [7]

2004

Dates Country Location Details
2–4 May  Germany Munich
Berlin
Potsdam		 [8][9]
4–6 May  Belgium Brussels [8][9]
6–9 May  Italy Rome [8][9]
9–11 May  United Kingdom London [8][9]
11–12 May  Ireland Dublin Official visit.[8] Wen held talks with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.[9]
21–23 September  Kyrgyzstan Bishkek [10][11]
23–25 September  Russia Moscow [10][11]
6–9 October  Vietnam Hanoi [12][13]
28–30 November  Laos Vientiane [14][15]
7–9 December  Netherlands The Hague
Amsterdam		 [16][17][18][19][20]

2005

Dates Country Location Details
5–6 January  Indonesia Jakarta
5–7 April  Pakistan Islamabad
Lahore
7–8 April  Bangladesh Dhaka Official visit. Wen held talks with Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and meet with Bangladeshi President Iajuddin Ahmed.
8–9 April  Sri Lanka Colombo Official visit. Wen held talks with Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga, met with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and Leader of the Opposition Ranil Wickremesinghe, inspected the tsunami-affected areas in Sri Lanka, and attended the unveiling ceremony of Zhou Enlai's statue
9–12 April  India Bangalore
New Delhi
26–27 October  Russia Moscow
4–7 December  France Toulouse
Paris		 Official visit.[21] Wen met with National Assembly President Jean-Louis Debré, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and French President Jacques Chirac.[22]
7–8 December  Slovakia Bratislava [21][22]
8–9 December  Czech Republic Prague [21][22]
9–10 December  Portugal Lisbon [21][22]
11–15 December  Malaysia Kuala Lumpur [21][22]

2006

Dates Country Location Details
1–4 April  Australia Perth
Canberra
Sydney
4–5 April  Fiji Nadi
5–7 April  New Zealand Wellington
Auckland
7–8 April  Cambodia Phnom Penh
17–18 June  Egypt Cairo
18–19 June  Ghana Accra
19–20 June  Republic of the Congo Brazzaville
20–21 June  Angola Luanda Official visit. Wen held talks with Angolan Prime Minister Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, and hold talks with Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos.
21–22 June  South Africa Cape Town Official visit. Wen held talks with South African President Thabo Mbeki, met with South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, met with South African parliamentary leaders in Cape Town, and attended the first China-South Africa Business Cooperation Forum.
22–23 June  Tanzania Dar es Salaam Official visit. Wen held talks with Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, met with Tanzanian Prime Minister Edward Lowassa, paid tribute to the cemetery of Chinese experts in Tanzania and inspected the construction site.
23–24 June  Uganda Kampala Official visit. Wen held talks with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, met with Ugandan Prime Minister Apolo Nsibambi, visited the Uganda AIDS Prevention and Treatment Center, and held talks with some Chinese ambassadors to Africa.
9–12 September  Finland Helsinki Official visit. Wen and attended the 9th China-EU Summit and the 6th Asia-Europe Meeting. He held talks with Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, met with Finnish President Tarja Halonen, and met with South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, Latvian President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Polish Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński, Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates.
12–13 September  United Kingdom London Working visit. Wen held talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, met with British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott and members of the UK China Relations Group.
13–14 September  Germany Hamburg
Berlin		 Working visit. Wen attended the opening ceremony of the second China-Europe Forum, held talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and met with German President Horst Köhler.
14–16 September  Tajikistan Dushanbe Official visit. Wen attended the Fifth Meeting of Prime Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Member States. He met with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and held talks with Tajik Prime Minister Oqil Oqilov. He also met with Kyrgyz Prime Minister Felix Kulov, Kazakh Prime Minister Daniyal Akhmetov, Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, Afghan First Vice President Ahmad Zia Massoud and Iranian Vice President Ali Saeedlou.

2007

Dates Country Location Details
1月13日-16日  Philippines Cebu
Manila		 [23]
4月10日-11日  South Korea Seoul
4月11日-13日  Japan Tokyo
Kyoto
11月2日-3日  Uzbekistan Tashkent [24][25]
11月3日-4日  Turkmenistan Ashgabat [24][25]
11月4日-5日  Belarus Minsk [24][25]
11月4日-6日  Russia Moscow [24][25]
11月18日-22日  Singapore [26]

2008

Dates Country Location Details
29–31 March  Laos Vientiane Official visit. Wen attended the Third Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation Leaders' Meeting.[27] He met with Lao President Choummaly Sayasone and held talks with Lao Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh. He also met with Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej and Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda.[28]
23–25 September  United States New York City [29][30]
27–29 October  Russia Moscow [31][32]
29–31 October  Kazakhstan Astana Official visit. Wen attended the 7th meeting of the Council of Prime Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states.[31] He met with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and held talks with Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov. He also met with Iranian First Vice President Parviz Davoodi and Mongolian Prime Minister Sanjaagiin Bayar. This visit was the first visit to Kazakhstan by a Chinese Premier in seven years.[32]
13 December  Japan Fukuoka Attended the China–Japan–South Korea trilateral summit. Met with Japanese Prime Minister Tarō Asō and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.[33]

2009

Dates Country Location Details
27–28 January  Switzerland Zurich
Bern
Davos		 [34][35]
28–29 January  Germany Berlin [34][35]
29–30 January  Belgium Brussels [34][35]
30–31 January  Spain Madrid Official visit. Wen held talks with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and met with Spanish King Juan Carlos I.[35]
31 January–2 February  United Kingdom London [34][35]
10–11 April  Thailand Pattaya [36][37]
20 May  Czech Republic Prague [38][39]
4–6 October  North Korea Pyongyang Official goodwill visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[40] Wen held talks with North Korean Premier Kim Yong-il and Workers' Party of Korea General Secretary Kim Jong Il, and met with Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly Chairman Kim Yong-nam. He also paid tribute to the martyrs of the People's Volunteer Army, watched the North Korean version of the opera Dream of the Red Chamber with Kim Jong Il, and attended the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and North Korea and the closing ceremony of the China-North Korea Friendship Year.[41] This is the first time that a Chinese Premier has visited North Korea since Li Peng visited North Korea in May 1991.[42][43]
23–25 October  Thailand Hua Hin [44][45]
6–8 November  Egypt Cairo
Sharm El Sheikh		 [46][47]
17–18 December  Denmark Copenhagen [48][49]

2010

Dates Country Location Details
28–30 May  South Korea Seoul
Jeju Island		 [50][51]
30 May–1 April  Japan Tokyo [50][51]
1–2 April  Mongolia Ulaanbaatar [50][51]
2–3 April  Myanmar Yangon [50][51]
21–23 September  United States New York City [52][53]
2–4 October  Greece Athens [54][55]
4–6 October  Belgium Brussels [54][55]
5 October  Germany Berlin
Schloss Meseberg		 Wen met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. This trip was arranged on the spur of the moment outside the European schedule.[56]
6–7 October  Italy Rome [54][55]
7–9 October  Turkey Ankara Official visit.[54] Wen held talks with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and met with Turkish President Abdullah Gül.[55]
28–30 October  Vietnam Hanoi [57][58]
22–24 November  Russia Saint Petersburg
Moscow		 [59][60]
24–25 November  Tajikistan Dushanbe [59][60]
15–17 December  India New Delhi [61][62]
17–19 December  Pakistan Islamabad [61][62]

2011

Dates Country Location Details
27–28 April  Malaysia Kuala Lumpur [63][64]
28–30 April  Indonesia Jakarta [63][64]
21–22 May  Japan Tokyo
Fukushima
Sendai, Natori		 [65][66]
24–25 June  Hungary Budapest [67][68]
25–27 June  United Kingdom Birmingham
London		 [67][68]
27–28 June  Germany Berlin [67][68]
6–8 November  Russia Saint Petersburg [69][70]
17–20 November  Indonesia Bali [71][72]
20–21 November  Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan Official visit.[71] Wen held talks with Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.[72]

2012

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