The Little Companion Art Troupe has performed for more than 60 heads of state and leading statesmen, and made 60 tours of 30 or more countries and regions, such as the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Australia and Japan. It has performed on gala occasions such as the Beijing Olympic Games, the APEC Summit, the Shanghai Special Olympic Games, the Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank, and the SCO Summit Meeting.

"Delegates at the 2001 APEC Summit Meeting in Shanghai held heated debates, but watching the Little Companion Art Troupe perform seemed to melt the hearts of even such political heavyweights as US President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin," said Chen Baihua, director of the CWI Children's Palace and president of the Little Companion Art Troupe.

These children's smiles time and again melt the hearts of international audiences, earning them the epithet "Chinese child ambassadors." The Chinese ambassador to the US commented in a letter to Shanghai that the children's performances in the United States received a far warmer reception than his 20-odd lectures on China.

In 2008 the Little Companion Art Troupe became the first Chinese troupe to win the US annual Coming Up Taller Award.

In 2007, the US President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities sent a delegation to China that saw performances by the Little Companion Art Troupe. They acknowledged the educational concepts of "inspiring children's creativity and shaping their positive philosophy through education in the arts and humanities" and "aiding the poor and helping the needy." They commended the educational achievements and expressed the belief that these principles could have an enlightening effect within children's artistic education in the United States. On January 28, 2008, then first lady Laura Bush presented awards to Chen Baihua and the children's representative.

No Understudies

The Little Companion Art Troupe took part in three of the four sections of the performance at the opening ceremony. They joined the many professionals performing at the beginning and end of the ceremony, and were the only background dancers to accompany Japanese singer Shinji Tanimura as he sang Star, and Italian Andrea Bocelli singing Nessun Dorma.