Some foreign leaders have recently extended their warm congratulation to China through various channels over the successful mission of the Shenzhou-7 spacecraft. The leaders include Lesotho's King Letsie III, Niger’s President Mamadou Tandja, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, Cameroonian President Paul Biya, Senior-General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of Myanmar, Myanmar's Prime Minister General Thein Sein and its Foreign Minister U Nyan Win; Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem of Vietnam; and Prime Minister Faustin-Archange Touadera of the Central African Republic.

The leaders said the first spacewalk by a Chinese astronaut once again proved China has become one of the world's major powers in space science. It also showed China has taken a solid step forward on the path of peace, opening-up, cooperation and harmonious development, they said. The leaders also expressed their belief that the Chinese people will continue to make still greater achievements in technological development and the country's modernization.