His entourage includes You Quan, deputy secretary-general of the State Council, Zhang Guobao, vice minister of the National Development and Reform Commission, Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei, Vice Minister of Finance Liao Xiaojun, Deputy Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng and Ning Jizhe, vice director of the Research Office of the State Council.

Li made the visits at the invitations of Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen and the governments of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.