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This is a list of international trips made by Jiang Zemin, the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and the 5th President of the People's Republic of China. Jiang Zemin made international trips to 72 countries during his leadership from 1990 to 2002.

Summary[edit]

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

  • One visit to: Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Brunei, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Libya, Lithuania, Mali, Malta, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, the Philippines, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, the Soviet Union, Spain, the State of Palestine, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, the United Kingdom, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.
  • Two visits to: Brazil, Cuba, France, Egypt, Germany, Mexico, North Korea, Portugal, Ukraine, and Vietnam
  • Three visits to: Japan, Kazakhstan, and Malaysia.
  • Five visits to: the United States.
  • Six visits to: Russia.

1990–1992[edit]

Country Locations Dates Details
 North Korea Pyongyang 14–16 March 1990 Goodwill visit. Met with President Kim Il Sung, Premier Yon Hyong-muk. and Vice presidents Ri Jong-ok and Pak Song-chol.[1]
 Soviet Union Moscow
Leningrad 		15–19 May 1991 Official visit.
 Japan Tokyo
Osaka
Fukuoka 		6–10 April 1992 Goodwill visit.

1993[edit]

On 27 March 1993, Jiang Zemin was appointed as President of the People's Republic of China.

Country Locations Dates Details
 United States San Francisco
Seattle 		17–21 November Attended the 5th APEC meeting.[2]
 Cuba Havana 21–22 November Stopover in way to Brazil. Met with Council of State President Fidel Castro.
 Brazil Brasília
Foz do Iguaçu
São José
São Paulo
Rio de Janeiro
Manaus 		22–28 November State visit. Met with President Itamar Franco.
 Portugal Lisbon 28–29 November Originally planned to be a stopover visit, the Portuguese government took the initiative to upgrade it into a drop-over visit.

1994[edit]

Country Locations Dates Details
 Russia Moscow
Yekaterinburg 		2–6 September
 Ukraine Kyiv 6–8 September
 France Paris 8–12 September
 Singapore 8–10 November Met with President Ong Teng Cheong and Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.[3]
 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur 10–14 November
 Indonesia Jakarta November Attended the 6th APEC meeting.
 Vietnam Hanoi 20–23 November Official goodwill visit.[4]

1995[edit]

Country Locations Dates Details
 Russia Moscow 8–9 May Attended the 1995 Moscow Victory Day Parade.[5]
 Finland Helsinki 5–8 July
 Hungary Budapest 8–11 July
 Germany Stuttgart
Bonn
Essen
Munich 		11–15 July
 United States New York City 21–25 October [2]
 South Korea Seoul
Busan
Gyeongju
Jeju City 		13–17 November
 Japan Osaka 17–20 November Attended the 7th APEC meeting.

1996[edit]

Country Locations Dates Details
 Kenya Nairobi 8–11 May
 Ethiopia Addis Ababa 11–13 May
 Egypt Cairo 13–16 May Met with President Hosni Mubarak and Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid.[6]
 Mali Bamako 17–18 May Met with President Alpha Oumar Konaré, Prime Minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta and National Assembly President Aly Nouhoum Diallo.[7]
 Namibia Windhoek 18–20 May
 Zimbabwe Harare 21–22 May Met with President Robert Mugabe.
 Spain La Palma
Madrid 		23–27 June
 Norway Oslo 27–29 June
 Romania Bucharest 29 June–2 July
 Uzbekistan Tashkent 2–3 July
 Kyrgyzstan Bishkek 3–4 July
 Kazakhstan Almaty 4–6 July
 Philippines Manila 23–28 November State visit. Met with President Fidel V. Ramos. Also attended the 8th APEC meeting.
 India New Delhi 28 November–1 December State visit. Met with President Shankar Dayal Sharma, Vice President K. R. Narayanan, Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda, Lok Sabha Speaker P. A. Sangma, and Indian National Congress President Sitaram Kesri.
 Pakistan Islamabad
Lahore 		1–4 December State visit. Met with President Farooq Leghari, Caretaker Prime Minister Malik Meraj Khalid, Senate chairman Wasim Sajjad, Punjab Governor Khawaja Tariq Rahim and Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Afzal Hayat.
   Nepal Kathmandu 4–5 December State visit. Met with King Birendra and Prime MInister Sher Bahadur Deuba.

1997[edit]

Country Locations Dates Details
 Russia Moscow 22–27 April State visit. Met with President Boris Yeltsin. Signed the Treaty on Reduction of Military Forces in Border Regions.[8]
 United States Washington, D.C.
Honolulu
Williamsburg
Philadelphia
New York City
Boston
Los Angeles 		26 October–3 November State visit.[2]
 Canada Ottawa
Toronto
Calgary 		23–29 November Attended the 9th APEC meeting.
 Mexico Cancún
Mexico City 		29 November–3 December
 Canada Vancouver 3 December Transit.
 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur 14–17 December

1998[edit]

Country Locations Dates Details
 Kazakhstan Almaty 3–4 July Working visit. Attended a five-nation meeting between China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan Russia and Tajikistan
 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur 15–19 November State visit. Met with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Also attended the 10th APEC meeting.
 Russia Moscow
Novosibirsk 		22–25 November Held and informal talk with President Boris Yeltsin. Also visited the Novosibirsk Science City.
 Japan Tokyo
Sendai
Sapporo 		25–30 November State visit. Met with Emperor Akihito and Empress consort Michiko.

1999[edit]

Country Locations Dates Details
 Italy Venice
Rome
Milan 		20–25 March State visit. Met with President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro.
  Switzerland Geneva
Zürich 		25–27 March State visit. Met with President Ruth Dreifuss.
 Austria Vienna
Salzburg 		27–30 March State visit. Met with President Thomas Klestil.
 Mongolia Ulaanbaatar 15–17 July State visit. Met with President Natsagiin Bagabandi.
 Thailand Bangkok
Phuket 		2–6 September State visit. Met with King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
 Australia Melbourne
Canberra
Sydney
Cairns 		6–11 September
 New Zealand Auckland
Wellington
Christchurch 		11–16 September Attended the 11th APEC meeting
 United Kingdom London

Cambridge

18–22 October State visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II. Also gave a speech at the University of Cambridge.
 France Lyon
Corrèze
Paris 		22–26 October State visit.
 Portugal Lisbon
Porto 		26–27 October State visit.
 Morocco Rabat
Casablanca 		27–30 October State visit.
 Algeria Algiers 30–31 October State visit.
 Saudi Arabia Dammam
Riyadh 		31 October–3 November State visit. Met with King Fahd bin Abdulaziz.

2000[edit]

Country Locations Dates Details
 israel Tel Aviv
Jerusalem 		12–15, 16–17 April State visit. Met with President Ezer Weizman and Prime Minister Ehud Barak.[9]
 Palestine Bethlehem 15–16 April State visit.
 Egypt Alexandria 17–18 April Met with President Hosni Mubarak.
 Turkey Ankara
Istanbul 		18–20 April State visit. Met with President Süleyman Demirel and Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit.[10]
 Greece Athens
Crete 		21–23 April State visit.
 South Africa Johannesburg
Pretoria
Cape Town 		24–27 April State visit.
 Tajikistan Dushanbe 3–5 July State visit. Met with President Emomali Rahmon. Attended a five-nation meeting between China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan Russia and Tajikistan
 Turkmenistan Ashgabat 5–7 July State visit. Met with President Saparmurat Niyazov.
 United States New York City 4–10 September Attended the United Nations Millennium Summit.[2]
 Laos Vientiane 11–13 November State visit. Met with President Khamtai Siphandone, Prime Minister Sisavath Keobounphanh, and National Assembly President Samane Vignaket.
 Cambodia Phnom Penh
Siem Reap 		13–14 November State visit. Met with King Norodom Sihanouk, Prime Minister Hun Sen, Senate President Chea Sim, and National Assembly President Norodom Ranariddh.
 Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan 14–18 November State visit. Met with Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. Also attended the 12th APEC meeting.

2001[edit]

Country Locations Dates Details
 French Polynesia Tahiti 4 April Transit.
 Chile San Diego 5–7 April State visit. Met with President Ricardo Lagos and Senate President Andrés Zaldívar.
 Argentina Buenos Aires 7–10 April State visit. Met with President Fernando de la Rúa, Senate Provisional President Mario Losada and Chamber of Deputies President Rafael Pascual.
 Uruguay Montevideo 10–11 April State visit. Met with President Jorge Batlle.
 Brazil Brasília 11–12 April Working visit. Met with President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
 Cuba Havana 12–15 April State visit. Met with Council of State President Fidel Castro.
 Venezuela Caracas 15–17 April State visit. Met with President Hugo Chávez.
 Spain Gran Canaria 18 April Transit.
 Russia Moscow
Volgograd 		15–18 July State visit. Met with President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, State Duma chairman Gennadiy Seleznyov, Federation Council chairman Yegor Stroyev, and Volgograd Oblast Nikolay Maksyuta. Also met with International Olympics Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch and former president Boris Yeltsin. Gave a speech at the Moscow State University.
 Belarus Minsk 18–19 July State visit. Met with President Alexander Lukashenko, Prime Minister Vladimir Yermoshin, Council of the Republic Speaker Alyaksandr Vaytovich, and House of Representatives Speaker Anatoly Malofeyev.
 Moldova Chișinău 19–20 July State visit. Met with President Vladimir Voronin, Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev, and Parliament President Eugenia Ostapciuc.
 Ukraine Kyiv
Yalta 		20–23 July State visit. Met with President Leonid Kuchma, Prime Minister Anatoliy Kinakh, and Verkhovna Rada chairman Ivan Plyushch.
 Malta Valletta 23–25 July State visit. Met with President Guido de Marco.
 North Korea Pyongyang 3–5 September Official goodwill visit. Met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, Supreme Assembly Presidium President Kim Yong-nam, and Premier Hong Song-nam. Paid respect to late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung and laid wreaths at the Sino–Korean Friendship Tower.
 Myanmar Yangon
Rakhine State
Bagan
Mandalay 		12–15 December State visit. Met with State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) Chairman Than Shwe and SPDC Secretary Khin Nyunt.[11]

2002[edit]

Country Locations Dates Details
 Vietnam Hanoi
Huế
Da Nang
Hội An 		27 February–1 March Official goodwill visit. Met with Communist Party of Vietnam General Secretary Nông Đức Mạnh, President Trần Đức Lương, Prime Minister Phan Văn Khải, and National Assembly chairman Nguyễn Văn An. Gave a speech at the Vietnam National University. Also met with former general secretaries Đỗ Mười and Lê Khả Phiêu
 Germany Berlin
Potsdam
Dresden
Wolfsburg
Goslar
Hanover 		8–13 April State visit. Met with President Johannes Rau and Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
 Libya Tripoli 13–14 April State visit. Met with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.[12]
 Nigeria Abuja 14–16 April State visit. Met with President Olusegun Obasanjo.
 Tunisia Tunis 16–18 April State visit. Met with President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi, and Chamber of Deputies Speaker Fouad Mebazaa.
 Cuba Shiraz
Tehran 		18–22 April State visit. Met with Council of State President Fidel Castro.
 Iran Caracas 15–17 April State visit. Met with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, President Muhammad Khatami, Islamic Consultative Assembly Speaker Mehdi Karroubi, Expediency Discernment Council chairman Akbar Rafsanjanī, and Governor-General of the Fars Province.
 Kazakhstan Almaty 3–5 June Attended the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia.
 Russia Saint Petersburg
Sochi 		5–10 June Attended the 2nd Shanghai Cooperation Organization Heads of State summit.
 Latvia Riga 10–12 June State visit. Met with President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Prime Minister Andris Bērziņš, and Saeima Speaker Jānis Straume.
 Estonia Tallinn 12–13 June State visit. Met with President Arnold Rüütel, Prime Minister Juhan Parts, and Riigikogu chairman Toomas Savi.
 Iceland Reykjavík 13–16 June State visit. Met with President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson and Prime Minister Davíð Oddsson.
 Lithuania Vilnius 16–18 June State visit. Met with President Valdas Adamkus, Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas, and Seimas Speaker Artūras Paulauskas.
 United States Chicago
Houston
Crawford
Waco
San Francisco 		22–25 October Working visit. Met with Illinois Governor George Ryan and US President George W. Bush. Gave a speech at the George Bush Presidential Library.[2]
 Mexico Los Cabos Municipality 25–28 October Attended the 10th APEC meeting.

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