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In a meeting with Peruvian President Dina Boluarte in Beijing,
President Xi Jinping said both sides should coordinate and
promote cooperation in fields such as minerals, energy,
manufacturing, agriculture and others, state broadcaster CCTV
said.
Peru and China signed a free trade agreement in 2009, which
helped the South American nation boost its exports.
Peru's press office reported that Boluarte and Xi also signed a
series of agreements to strengthen ties, including one on
Peruvian grape exports to China, and a memorandum of
understanding establishing a Peruvian-Chinese Business Council.
China is Peru's top investor and the top market for copper from
Peru, the world's third largest producer of the red metal.
"China's interest in key sectors of the Peruvian economy, such
as mining, infrastructure and energy, is fundamental to national
development plans, while ongoing investments are a source of
employment and a promise of progress," Boluarte said in a
statement from her office.
Visiting China this week, Boluarte has met with executives from
several companies as well as Xi, who she invited to inaugurate
in November the Chancay "megaport" being built on Peru's coast
by Chinese company Cosco Shipping.
Xi is expected to travel to Peru in November for the summit of
leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), a bloc
that accounts for almost half of world trade.
(Reporting by Liz Lee, Beijing newsroom and Marco Aquino;
Editing by Tomasz Janowski and Brendan O'Boyle)
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