On November 5, 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Moscow.

At the invitation of Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, Wen arrived in Moscow from the Belarusian capital of Minsk by special plane on the afternoon of November 5, kicking off his official visit to Russia.

Wen has already paid official visits to Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Belarus and attended the sixth Meeting of Prime Ministers of the Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Tashkent.

Russia is the last leg of Wen's four-nation tour. He is expected to hold the 12th regular prime ministers' meeting with his Russian counterpart Viktor Zubkov and attend the closing ceremony of the "Year of China" in Russia.