Chinese President Hu Jintao is currently paying a state visit to the United States, which started on April 18 and will end on April 21.

The following is a list of meetings between Hu and U.S. President George W. Bush over the past several years.

On Nov. 19-21, 2005, Bush paid a visit to China. During the visit, both heads of state held an in-depth exchange of views on a wide range of issues, including bilateral relationship, economic and trade cooperation, the Taiwan question, the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, bird flu and other mutual concerns. They also achieved critical consensus on promoting bilateral constructive relations of cooperation in the 21th century.

On Sept. 13, 2005, the two leaders held a meeting in New York on the sidelines of a global summit meeting commemorating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. They discussed bilateral relations and mutual concerns on global and regional issues, and agreed to enhance mutual trust, strengthen cooperation, strive to enhance the Sino-U.S. constructive relations of cooperation and promote peace, stability and development of the world at large.

On July 7, 2005, Hu met with Bush in Gleneagles, Scotland, on the sidelines of the meeting between leaders from the G-8 group and Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa. In their talks, they discussed bilateral relations as well as other issues of mutual concerns.

On Nov. 11, 2004, Hu and Bush met on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Diego, Chile. They affirmed the positive progress both countries achieved in their efforts to develop their constructive relations of cooperation, and pledged continued endeavor to strengthen cooperation as well as consultations and coordination on major international and regional affairs.

On Oct. 19, 2003, the presidents met on the eve of the APEC summit in Bangkok of Thailand. Hu said China appreciated Washington's repeated reaffirmation of its stance to adhere to the one-China policy, observe the three Sino-U.S. joint communiques and oppose "Taiwan independence." He hoped the U.S. would honor its commitments.

Bush said that a sound bilateral relationship was important to the U.S., pledging that he would continue his efforts to better ties between the two countries.

On June 1, 2003, Hu and Bush met while attending the South-North leaders dialogue conference in Evian of France. Hu reiterated China's stance on the Taiwan issue, while his counterpart spoke highly of China's active efforts to combat the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and its notable achievements in the battle.

On the nuclear standoff on the Korean Peninsula, the two leaders said both countries would be dedicated to safeguarding peace and stability on the peninsula, support its non-nuclearization, and advocate the peaceful settlement of problems through dialogue, adding that they would maintain communications and cooperation in this regard.