LIMA (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday during talks with Peru’s Dina Boluarte in Lima that China is willing to take the Chancay port, built and controlled by Chinese state-owned Cosco Shipping, as a starting point to forge a new maritime-land corridor between China and Latin America.
The Chinese leader also said that the Chancay port, which he will officially inaugurate with Boluarte on Thursday, is a successful project within the Belt and Road Initiative, a trade and infrastructure project that is Xi’s signature foreign policy plan.
(This story has been refiled to correct a typo in the headline)
(Reporting by Eduardo Baptista; editing by Diane Craft)
