When Richard Nixon visited China in 1972, this song was played as the welcome music.

João Manuel Bernardo, the current ambassador of Angola to China, visited the PRC in November 2007.

In August 2008, a Comorian delegation visited China on a good-will visit.

In 1971, shortly after he had switched his country's diplomatic recognition from the Republic of China to the People's Republic of China, the Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, visited Japan.

* Highest Confluence: in Kuba, Tibet, China at 19, 143 feet ( 5, 835 m ), first visited by Greg Michaels and Robert Whitfield on May 29, 2005.

El Salvador is one of the ROC's strongest supporters in the UN and the National Legislative Assembly's President Silfrido Reyes visited Taiwan recently to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Republic of China.

Cabinet Ministers visited China without the Fijian embassy being informed, he complained.

Over a period of thirty years, he visited most of the known Islamic world as well as many non-Muslim lands ; his journeys including trips to North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, and to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East, a distance surpassing threefold his near-contemporary Marco Polo.

Some orientalists have also questioned whether he really visited China.

* Brahmaputra River in Bangladesh visited the area on his way from China.

He recorded his impressions of the places he visited and disdained the poverty of the inhabitants of Japan and China, whom he described as " gooks " and " lazy ignorant ".

Kim visited Beijing in May 1975 in the hope of gaining support for this plan to invade South Korea again, but Mao Zedong refused, saying the China would be unable to assist North Korea this time because of the lingering after-effects of the Cultural Revolution and because they had recently restored diplomatic relations with the US.

On 14 November 2010, Vice President Xi Jinping visited Singapore on a three day visit which affirmed Singapore's strong ties with China.

Mugabe visited China on 13 October and met with Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang.

** William H. Hinton ( 1919-2004 ) visited China in the 1930s and 40s and wrote an influential account of the Communist land reform.

He visited the People's Republic of China in July 1973.

Japanese monks also visited China ; such was the case with Ennin ( 794 – 864 ), who wrote of his travel experiences including travels along China's Grand Canal.

Fernão Pires de Andrade visited Canton in 1517 and opened up trade with China, where in 1557 the Portuguese were permitted to occupy Macau.

It has also been claimed that, in the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan enjoyed ice cream and kept it a royal secret until Marco Polo visited China and took the technique of making ice cream to Italy.

Organized the Chahar People's Anti-Japanese Army in cooperation with north China Communists and changed again to CPC in 1945 and visited the USSR.

KMT officials visited Mainland China, and the Chinese ARATS met in Beijing with its Taiwanese counterpart, the Straits Exchange Foundation.

" When the Soviet premier himself visited China the following year, Mao again asked him to explain what a joint fleet was.

Nor did Scowcroft fail to involve in key operations Deputy Secretary of State Eagleburger, such as when he visited the People's Republic of China in July 1989 to try to improve U. S. relations with China in the aftermath of the pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.

Eritrea's President Isaias visited Djibouti in early 2001 and President Ismail Omar Guelleh made a reciprocal visit to Asmara in the early summer of 2001.

President Obiang made an official visit to Madrid in March 2001, and senior Spanish Foreign Ministry officials visited Malabo during 2001 as well.

In 2001, 141, 000 foreigners visited Haiti.

Russian president Vladimir Putin visited Seoul in February 2001, while South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun visited Moscow in September 2004.

" L ' électron libre ", a gorgeously-ornamented building ( in a raving psychedelic style ) located in the core of the city ( 59 rue de Rivoli ), and owned by a French Bank, was in 2001 the third most visited place for contemporary art ( 40, 000 visitors a year, according to the French Ministry for Culture ).

According to immigration records in the Philippines, someone named Saeed al-Ghamdi visited that country on at least 15 occasions in 2001, entering as a tourist.

In late January 2001, he again flew to Beirut to visit his father who was ill and then visited his girlfriend, Şengün, in Germany, and returned to the United States once again in late February.

Development started in early 1998 and development stages were presented at ECTS 1999, 2000 and 2001, E < sup > 3 </ sup > 2000, 2001 and 2002 and on a tour where Bill Roper visited video game magazines.

Erdenetuya first worked as Seagal's interpreter when he visited Mongolia in 2001.

In 2001, Austria was the tenth most visited country in the world with over 18. 2 million tourists.

The Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs visited Greece in February 2001, returning a previous visit paid by the Foreign Minister of Greece to Algeria.

Nonetheless, Dennis Tito visited the ISS on April 28, 2001, and stayed for seven days, becoming the first " fee-paying " space tourist.

A " reclusive, pious and frugal " leader, Omar visited Kabul twice between 1996 to 2001.

* Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies, Gatlinburg: Opened in 2000 and designated the most visited aquarium in the United States in 2001, when over 2 million tourists passed through its galleries, Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies is the largest single tourist draw in Gatlinburg.

On September 11, 2005, the Dalai Lama visited Wood River High School in Hailey to give a speech on understanding and friendship in remembrance of the September 11, 2001 Attacks and offered condolences to the many thousands affected by the recent Hurricane Katrina.

Florian Blumberg also had two of his other great grandsons visit the region when Nathan and Carter Justice visited in 2001.

In 2001 a group of Vicksburg residents visited the Paducah, Kentucky mural project.

In 2001, Pixar crews visited to research US 66 for the animated film Cars, at a time when the town economy was still attempting to recover from the 1999 tornado, and the Rock Café was undergoing historic restoration.

In 2005 the city registered 19. 5 million of global visitors, up of 22. 1 % from 2001. and also, in 2006 Rome has been visited by 6. 03 million of international tourists, reaching the 8th place in the ranking of the world's 150 most visited cities.