Date	Outgoing Visits	Visits to the PRC
Jan. 19-25, 2003		Chief of Staff of the Army, Italy
Feb. 17-Mar. 12	Deputy Chief of General Staff to Argentina, Brazil and Chile
Feb. 21-Mar. 13	Commander of the Air Force to Egypt and Sudan
Mar. 7-12		Port call to Shanghai by a Spanish naval ship
Mar. 4-25	Deputy Chief of General Staff to ROK, Cuba and Trinidad and Tobago
Mar. 31-Apr. 3		Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces, Belarus
Apr. 7-12		Chief of General Department of Border, Mongolia
Apr. 20-May 1	Political Commissar of the Navy to Algeria and Mexico
Apr. 19-25		Minister of Defense, Switzerland
Apr. 20-27		Minister of Defense, India
Apr. 21-23		First Vice-Chairman of the National Defense Commission, DPRK
Apr. 26-May 17	Chief of General Staff to Tanzania, South Africa and Morocco
Apr. 27-May 4	President of the National Defense University to the U.S.A.
May 2-7	Deputy Chief of General Staff to France
May 24-28		Port call to Shanghai by British naval ships
May 26-30	Minister of National Defense to Russia
Jun. 29-Jul. 1		Minister of Defense, France
Jul. 14-20		Chief of General Staff, Guinea
Aug. 13-28	Political Commissar of the Academy of Military Science to Egypt and Syria
Aug. 17-23		Vice-Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council, Deputy Commander-in- Chief of Defense Services, Commander-in-Chief (Army), Myanmar
Aug. 18-22	Chief of General Political Department to DPRK
Aug. 21-29		Commander of the Joint Headquarters of the Armed Forces, Peru
Aug. 23-30		Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Nigeria
Aug. 25-Sep. 6	Political Commissar of General Armaments Department to Poland, Czech and Slovakia
Aug. 26-Sep. 2		Chief of General Staff, Mozambique
Aug. 27-Sep. 2		Minister of Defense, the Congo (Brazzaville)
Aug. 31-Sep. 6		Commander of the Navy, Chile
Aug. 31-Sep. 7		Minister of Defense, Uganda
Sep. 1-4		Director General of the Defense Agency, Japan
Sep. 1-5		Deputy Prime Minister, Thailand
Sep. 2-16	Deputy Chief of General Political Department to Belarus and Hungary
Sep. 4-20	Chief of General Staff to Pakistan, Brunei and Malaysia
Sep. 5-11		Minister of Defense, Canada
Sep. 7-12		Minister of Defense, Bulgaria
Sep. 7-28	Political Commissar of General Logistics Department to Zambia, Tunisia and Zimbabwe
Sep. 8-21	President of the Academy of Military Science to Mexico
Sep. 12-20	Deputy Chief of General Staff to Finland and Greece
Sep. 16-20		Vice-Minister of Defense, Italy
Sep. 20-24		Port call to Qingdao by a Russian naval ship
Sep. 22-26		Port call to Zhanjiang by a U.S. naval ship
Sep. 22-28		Vice-Premier and concurrently Minister of Defense, Croatia
Sep. 22-30		Minister of Defense, Tanzania
Sep. 23-27		Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, France
Sep. 23-29		Minister of Defense, Australia
Oct. 8-16		Commander of the Air Defense Force, Egypt
Oct. 8-16		Commander of the Mobilization Force of the Revolutionary Guards, Iran
Oct. 12-18		Chief of National Defense General Staff, Greece
Oct. 12-19		Chief of Staff of the National Defense Forces, Guyana
Oct. 13-16		General Inspector of the Armed Forces, Germany
Oct. 13-18		Commander of the National Defense Forces, Surinam
Oct. 13-19		Minister of Defense, Ghana
Oct. 15-19		Port call to Qingdao by  ROK’s naval ships
Oct. 16-23		Minister of Defense, Romania
Oct. 18-21		Port call to Shanghai by Pakistani naval ships
Oct. 20-27		Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Pakistan
Oct. 22-25	PLA naval ships to Guam
Oct. 22-29		Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces, Mongolia
Oct. 25-Nov. 1		Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the National Defense Forces, Sweden
Oct. 26-Nov. 2		Chief of General Staff of the People’s Army, Vietnam
Oct. 26-Nov. 2		Vice-Minister of Defense, Sierra Leone
Oct. 27-Nov. 2	Minister of National Defense to the U.S.A.
Oct. 30-Nov. 16	Political Commissar of the Nanjing Military Area Command to Ethiopia, Uganda and Botswana
Nov. 3-14	PLA naval ships to Brunei and Singapore