Timeline

Development of relationship between China and Uganda

1962: China and Uganda establish diplomatic ties.

1986: Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement take power.

March 1989: Museveni pays his first state visit to China and meets Deng Xiaoping. The two discuss opening-up and economic policies.

1996: Museveni pays second state visit to China and meets president Jiang Zemin, discussing potential for more collaboration.

1997: On Deng's death, Museveni pays condolence visit to Chinese embassy in Kampala.

April 2002: Chenao Coffee Co opens in Beijing, the first joint venture between the two countries, specializing in introducing Ugandan coffee to China.

2003: Museveni attends China-Africa Forum summit in Addis Abba, Ethiopia.

May 2004: Museveni attends World Bank conference on reducing poverty, held in Shanghai, and meets president Hu Jintao and premier Wen Jiabao.

September: China and Uganda sign an agreement on promoting mutual investment.

2005: The two countries sign a memorandum on private trips by Chinese to Uganda. The policy is refined later, allowing Chinese citizens to apply for visas on arrival in Uganda.

November 2006: Museveni attends China-Africa Forum in Beijing and meets with Hu.

October 2012: Han Qide, vice-chairman of the National People's Congress of China, attends celebration of Uganda's 50th anniversary of independence as Hu's special envoy; A non-state-owned Chinese enterprise sets up free trade zone that occupies 518 square kilometers on the shores of Lake Victoria.

March 2013: President Xi Jinping meets Museveni while attending conference of BRICS leaders in South Africa.

2013: Value of trade between China and Uganda reaches $520 million.

August 2014: Museveni attends opening ceremony of a rock phosphate mine in eastern Uganda, in which a business from Guangdong province invests $620 million.

March 2015: Museveni attends Boao Forum for Asia while on state visit to China.

China Daily

(China Daily Africa Weekly 04/10/2015 page7)