Up to 20:00, on May 21, heads of state and government, parliamentary leaders, officials of international organizations and people from all walks of life from 115 countries visited Chinese embassies, consulates or missions to mourn the victims of the earthquake. The following are a list of them.

Among the officials who visited Chinese missions to mourn the victims are: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse; Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete; Ghana's President John Agyekum Kufuor; Cote d'Ivoire's President Laurent Gbagbo; President of Cote d'Ivoire's National Assembly Mamadou Coulibaly; Cote d'Ivoire's Defense Minister N'guessan Michel Amani; Zimbabwe's Vice President Joyce Mujuru; Moldova's President Vladimir Voronin; Romanian President Traian Basescu; Cyprus' President Demetris Christofias; President of Cyprus Parliament Marios Garoyian; Cyprus' Foreign Minister Markos Kyprianou; Colombian President Alvaro Uribe; Suriname's President Ronald Venetiaan; Speaker of Suriname's National Assembly Paul S.Somohardjo; Vanuatu's President Kalkot Mataskelekele; Dominican President Nicholas J.O. Liverpool; Botswana's Vice President Mompati Merafhe; Micronesia's Vice President Alik Alik;

Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda Yasuo; Japanese President of House of Councilors Eda Satsuki; Vice Chairman of the National Defense Commission of the DPRK Kim Yong-Chun; Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea; DPRK's Deputy Prime Minister Ro Du Chol; DPRK Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun; DPRK Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Yong Il; Somalian Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein; Mauritius Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam; The Central African Republic's Prime Minister Faustin-Archange Touadera; President of National Assembly of the Central African Republic Celestin Leroy Gaombalet; The Central African Republic's Minister of Foreign Affairs Kombo Yaya; Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha; Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisyan; Tonga's Prime Minister Feleti Vaka'uta Sevele; Barbados' Prime Minister David Thompson; Lesotho's Acting Prime Minister Archibald Lesao Lehohla; Lesotho's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohlabi Kenneth Tsekoa; Dominica's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit;

President of Afghanistan's National Assembly Yunus Qanuni; Speaker of Ethiopia's Council of People's Representatives Teshome Toga; President of Democratic Republic of Congo's Assembly Vital Kamerhe; Democratic Republic of Congo's State Minister of Interior and Security Denis Kalume Numbi; Democratic Republic of Congo's Minister of Communication and Media Emile Bongeli; President of Togo's National Assembly Abass Bonfoh; Speaker of Lesotho's National Assembly Ntlhoi Motsamai; Russia's Vice Speaker of the State Duma Ivan Melnikov; Lithuania's Parliament Speaker Ceslovas Jursenas; Armenian National Assembly Speaker Tigran Torosian; President of the French Senate Christian Poncelet; Vice President of the Czech Senate Jiří Liška; Speaker of Hungary's National Assembly Szili Katalin; President of Cuba's National Assembly of People's Power Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada;

Mongolian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sanjaasuren Oyuun; Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs George Yeo Yong Boon; Thailand's Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama; Philippines' Secretary of Foreign Affairs Alberto Romulo; Malaysian Minister of Foreign Affairs Rais Yatim; Member of Bangladesh's Council of Advisers and Agriculture, Foreign Affairs, Overseas Expatriate Welfare and Employment Ministries Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury; Sri Lankan Minister of Foreign Affairs Rohitha Bogollagama; Morocco's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Taieb Fassi Fihri; Kenyan Minister of Foreign Affairs Moses Wetangula; Seychelles' Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Patrick Georges Pillay; Botswana's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation: Phandu T.C. Skelemani; Kyrgyzstan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ednan Karabayev; Georgia's Minister for Foreign Affairs Eka Tkeshelashvili; Armenia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Eduard Nalbandyan; Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Stoer; Micronesia's Secretary of the Department of External Affairs Asterio R. Takesy; Barbados' Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and International Business Christopher Sinckler; Trinidad and Tobago's Minister for Foreign Affairs Paula Gopee-Scoon.

Some heads of international organizations who also visited Chinese missions to voice their sympathies include: Director-General of the World Health Organization Margaret Chan; Secretary-General of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Supachai Panitchpakdi; Secretary-General of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Markku Niskala; Secretary General of Inter-Parliamentary Union Anders BJohnsson; Executive Director of International Trade Center (ITC) Patricia Francis; officials of United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and other international organizations.

In addition, Bangladesh designated May 21 as a national mourning day for the Chinese earthquake victims, when the Bangladeshi national flags at government and foreign missions were flown at half-mast.

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse

Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete

Ghana's President John Agyekum Kufuor

Cote d'Ivoire's President Laurent Gbagbo

President of Cote d'Ivoire's National Assembly Mamadou Coulibaly

Zimbabwe's Vice President Joyce Mujuru

Romanian President Traian Basescu

Cyprus' President Demetris Christofias

Cyprus' Foreign Minister Markos Kyprianou

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe

Suriname's President Ronald Venetiaan

Vanuatu's President Kalkot Mataskelekele

Dominican President Nicholas J.O. Liverpool

Botswana's Vice President Mompati Merafhe

Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda Yasuo

Vice Chairman of the National Defense Commission of the DPRK Kim Yong-Chun

Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea

DPRK's Deputy Prime Minister Ro Du Chol

DPRK Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun

Somalian Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein

Mauritius Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam

The Central African Republic's Prime Minister Faustin-Archange Touadera

President of National Assembly of the Central African Republic Celestin Leroy Gaombalet

The Central African Republic's Minister of Foreign Affairs Kombo Yaya

Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha

Barbados' Prime Minister David Thompson

Lesotho's Acting Prime Minister Archibald Lesao Lehohla

Lesotho's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohlabi Kenneth Tsekoa

Dominica's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit

President of Afghanistan's National Assembly Yunus Qanuni

President of Democratic Republic of Congo's Assembly Vital Kamerhe

Democratic Republic of Congo's State Minister of Interior and Security Denis Kalume Numbi

Speaker of Lesotho's National Assembly Ntlhoi Motsamai

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister

Lithuania's Parliament Speaker Ceslovas Jursenas

Vice President of the Czech Senate Jiří Liška

Speaker of Hungary's National Assembly Szili Katalin

Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs George Yeo Yong Boon

Thailand's Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama

Philippines' Secretary of Foreign Affairs Alberto Romulo

Malaysian Minister of Foreign Affairs Rais Yatim

Sri Lankan Minister of Foreign Affairs Rohitha Bogollagama

Morocco's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Taieb Fassi Fihri

Kenyan Minister of Foreign Affairs Moses Wetangula

Georgia's Minister for Foreign Affairs Eka Tkeshelashvili

Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Stoer

Barbados' Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and International Business Christopher Sinckler

Director-General of the World Health Organization Margaret Chan