Mr Wen has faced protests throughout his UK visit. A protester threw a shoe at Wen Jiabao, the Chinese Premier,as he delivered a speech on the global economy at Cambridge University on February 2, 2009.
Mr Wen was coming to the last part of his address when a young Western-looking man with dark hair stood up, blew a whistle and shouted: “How can the university prostitute itself with this dictator? How can you listen to these lies?”
The man, who appeared to be in his early twenties, then took off his heavy shoe and threw it at the stage missing the Premier by a few feet.
“Stand up and protest, you're not challenging him,” he shouted in a European accent as he was bundled out of the room by security staff.
Mr Wen then reprimanded the protester as more security guards moved on to the stage before he finished his speech.
“This despicable behaviour cannot stand in the way of friendship between China and the UK,” he said.
Shoe-throwing as an act of protest was popularised in December by Muntadhar al-Zeidi, an Iraqi journalist, who threw his brogues at George W. Bush, the former American president. He missed with both attempts but was arrested by Iraqi security forces.
Security was tight in the build up to the speech with scores of Chinese secret service agents monitoring the audience. The guests who heard Mr Jibao speak were searched and passed through metal detractors as they entered the room.
Police kept demonstrators away from the Premier as he arrived to speak. A group of objecting to Chinese policy in Tibet and raising concerns about human rights in China were penned in a corner about 50 yards from the entrance.
“The strength of the relationship between China and Britain will be a pivotal force in helping us through the downturn and a powerful driving force behind our future growth and prosperity,” he said.
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An Iraqi journalist was wrestled to the floor by security guards after he called Mr Bush "a dog" and threw his footwear, just missing the president.
The US president has now continued to Afghanistan to inspect troops there.
He arrived before dawn at Bagram air force base, and is due to hold talks with President Hamid Karzai.
Earlier in Baghdad, Mr Bush and Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki signed the new security agreement between their countries.
The pact calls for US troops to leave Iraq in 2011 - eight years after the 2003 invasion that has in part defined the Bush presidency.
Speaking just over five weeks before he hands over power to Barack Obama, Mr Bush also said the war in Iraq was not over and more work remained to be done.
His previously unannounced visit came a day after Defence Secretary Robert Gates told US troops the Iraq mission was in its "endgame".
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In what is India’s first “Shoegate” incident, a journalist hurled a shoe at Home Minister P Chidambaram during a press conference at the AICC headquarters in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Jarnail Singh, a journalist working for a Hindi daily, took the drastic step to protest the clean chit given by the CBI to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, who is an accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. Earlier this month, the CBI had sought the Supreme Court’s permission to close the case against Tytler.
A bemused Chidambaram, who took evasive action to avoid being hit, said “gently, gently” as security personnel whisked Singh away. “Let not the action of one emotional person hijack the entire press conference. I have answered his questions to the best of my ability,” he added.
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