December 1994

President Guntis Ulmanis

Spring 1997

Alfreds Cepanis, Speaker of the Saeima

June 2000

Rihards Piks, Deputy Speaker of the Saeima

28 March-8 April 2001

Latvia-Taiwan Parliamentary Co-operation Group

June 2000

Indulis Berzins, Foreign Minister

May-June 2001

Janis Straume, Speaker of the Saeima

August-September 2001

Delegation from the Ministry of Culture, headed by Aivars Gailis, State Secretary

May 2002

Janis Stradins, President of the Latvian Academy of Sciences (LZA)

August 2001

Unofficial visit by Valdis Birkavs, MP of the Saeima

September 2002

Karina Petersone, Minister of Culture

September 2002

Delegation of the Riga City Council, to Suzhou

24-27 October 2003 

Gundars Bojars, Riga City Mayor, to Suzhou. The Additional Agreement in the Areas of Culture and Tourism signed.

25 November-1 December 2003

Eriks Jekabsons, Deputy Speaker of the Saeima

4-10 April 2004

The Saeima Latvian-Chinese Parliamentary Friendship Group; main meetings held in Beijing with Deputy Speaker of the Chinese Parliament, Deputy Foreign Minister, and Head of the Chinese-Latvian Inter-parliamentary Group. Visits to Nanjing, Changzhou and Shanghai. 

12-18 April 2004

President Vaira Vike-Freiberga to Shanghai, Xi'an, Beijing, and Hong Kong.

Seven agreements signed, two business forums organised, and exhibition by Latvian artists opened in Beijing.

8-16 November 2004

Latvian-Chinese Parliamentary Friendship Group, headed by Silva Golde

11-15 April 2005

Working visit by Ainars Slesers, Minister of Transport and delegation of Communications Infrastructures of Latvia to Beijing, Dalian, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

23-30 may 2005

Janis Leja, Chairman of the Chamber of Trade and Industry of Latvia, and a delegation of Latvian businessmen, to Shanghai and Beijing; agreement signed between the Chamber of Trade and Industry of Latvia and the Shanghai Chamber of International Commerce.

22-27 May 2005

Official visit by Artis Pabriks, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to Beijing, Guilin, Shanghai

10-16 June 2005

An official visit by the Economic, Agricultural, Environmental, and Regional Development Commission of the Saeima (Dzintars Jaundzeikars, Dzintars Zakis, Peteris Kalnins, Indulis Emsis, Krisjanis Peters, Mihails Pietkevics, Madars Lasmanis, Janis Skapars).

12-18 June 2005

Andris Vilks, Director of the National Library, to a UNESCO meeting in Lijiang

24-30 June 2005

Oskars Spurdzins, Minister of Economy, to Beijing, Tianjing, Shenzhen, Shanghai

2-7 July 2005

Inna Steinbuka, Chair of the Public Utilities Commission, to the 1st Central Asia Regional Economic Co-operation (CAREC) Members Electricity Regulators Forum (CMERF), in Beijing

3-8 July 2005

Gundars Berzins, MP of the Saeima, to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Economics and Security Committee meetings in Beijing and Shanghai

10-16 July 2005

Economic, Agricultural, Environmental, and Regional Development Commission of the Saeima, to Beijing, Nanjing, Wuhan, Yichang, and Sanya

19-26 July 2005

Rihards Piks, the European Parliament Member from Latvia, to Lhasa (Tibet), Chengdu, and Shanghai

28 August-1 September 2005 

Delegation headed by Dagnija Stake, Minister of Welfare, to the international conference Beijing+10: 10th Anniversary of UN Fourth World Conference on Women

2-8 November 2005

Inese Vaidere, European Parliament Member from Latvia, to Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou

7-8 November 2005

Raimonds Vejonis, Minister of the Environment and a delegation from the Ministry of the Environment, to the Beijing International Renewable Energy Conference

28-29 November 2005

Rector Boriss Kurovs and Pro-rector Irina Sennikova of the Riga International School of Economics and Business Administration (RSEBAA), and Pro-rector of the University of Latvia (LU) Juris Krumins; the EU-China summit on higher education in Beijing

10-15 January 2006

Gundars Berzins, Minister of Health, and delegation including representatives of the Centre of Emergency and Disaster Medicine, and the Riga Stradins University

17-18 January 2006

Rinalds Mucins, Under-Secretary of State of the Ministry of Health, to the International Pledging Conference on Avian and Human Pandemic Influenza in Beijing 

15-19 March 2006

Normans Penke heading MFA delegation, to Shanghai and Beijing, as part of bilateral RL-PRC consultation of the Foreign Ministries

20-22 June 2006

Gunta Veismane, Head of the State Chancellery, as moderator of panel discussions at the conference Innovation of Public Management, within the framework of the Chinese - European Public Administration Programme

12-19 August 2006

An official visit by Ingrida Udre, Speaker of the Saeima, upon invitation of the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), Wu Bangguo

19-22 September 2006

Representatives of the Ministry of Transport and the logistics sector of Latvia, to the international fair Transport and Logistic China 2006 in Shanghai

13-16 October 2006

Kaspars Gerhards, State Secretary of the Ministry of Economy, to Guandjou

21-26 October, 2006

Aleksejs Loskutovs, Director of the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau (KNAB) and Eriks Zvejnieks, Deputy Prosecutor General of Latvia

5-12 September 2007

Working visit by Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis to the Dalian World Economic Forum. Meetings with Wen Jiabao, Prime Minister of the PRC, Xia Deren, Mayor of Dalian, members of the local business community, discussions with Zhang Siping, Deputy Mayor of Shenzhen; opening the China International Fair for Investment and Trade together with Wu Ji, the Chinese Deputy Prime Minister, meeting with Huang Xiao Tin, Mayor of the Province and Liu Chi Gui, Mayor of Xiamen City; meeting with Henry Tang, Deputy Head of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government, top executives of the Orient Overseas International Ltd, a transportation and logistics service company, Li&Fung Ltd, an export funding company, meeting with Roger King, Honorary Consul of the Republic of Latvia in Hong Kong.