Putin made 192 visits during his eight-year presidency, including seven visits to China and six visits to the United States.

　　　　BEIJING, May 8 (Xinhua) According to Russian media reports, according to the latest statistics, Putin was busy during his presidency of Russia from 2000 to 2008, and his schedule was tight. As he himself said, he always worked like a "slave on a ship", including 192 visits abroad, including 7 visits to China and 6 visits to the United States.

　　　　Statistics show that Putin held an average of 145 talks with foreign representatives every year during his eight-year presidency. Today, the database of the official website of the President of the Russian Federation still contains 1409 speeches made by Putin in foreign political exchanges.

　　　　The last time Putin received foreign guests as president was in the Kremlin meeting with the Greek Prime Minister on April 29th this year. During his eight-year presidency, Putin often had telephone conversations with foreign leaders, with an average of more than 100 times a year. The last time he called Egyptian President Mubarak on May 4 to congratulate him on his 80th birthday.

　　　　In the past eight years, the largest number of large-scale international activities that Putin participated in were various forms of CIS summits, totaling 64 times. During his tenure as President of the Russian Federation, Putin attended 17 Russia-EU summits, 7 meetings with leaders of Asia-Pacific countries, 3 meetings with the United Nations General Assembly and 8 summits of the Group of Eight and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The last time Putin participated in large-scale international activities as president was on April 4 this year, when he attended the meeting of the Russian-NATO high-level committee in Hungary.

　　　　From 2000 to 2008, Putin made 192 working visits, official visits and state visits to 187 cities in 74 countries, among which the countries with the most visits were Ukraine (23 times), Kazakhstan (14 times), Germany (13 times), Belarus (10 times), China (7 times) and the United States (6 times). The year of the most frequent visits was 2007, with a total of 27 overseas visits. The last visit was to Sardinia, Italy, on April 17-18 this year.

　　　　In Russia, Putin inspected 212 cities and villages, and the last domestic work inspection site was Sochi, with the purpose of supervising the preparations for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. (Bi Yuan)

Editor: Zhang Renhe