Chinese President Xi Jinping left the Peruvian capital Lima on Sunday after concluding his state visit to the country and is now en route to Brazil's Rio de Janeiro.
Xi arrived in Lima on Thursday to attend the 31st APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting and pay a state visit to Peru at the invitation of Peruvian President Dina Boluarte.
The Chinese president is now heading to Brazil for a state visit and to attend the 19th G20 Summit, which will take place in Rio de Janeiro on Monday and Tuesday.
Xi will also hold talks with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to discuss bilateral relations and exchange views on international and regional issues of mutual interest, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Xi leaves Lima, bound for Brazil after completing visit to Peru
Xi leaves Lima, bound for Brazil after completing visit to Peru
Expectations are running high among Brazilian researchers, officials and local residents for Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to their country to bring new development opportunities and deeper and wider cooperation.
President Xi will attend the 19th G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro and pay a state visit to Brazil from Nov. 17 to 21 at the invitation of President of the Federative Republic of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Ronnie Lins, director of the China-Brazil Center for Research and Business, said President Xi's attendance at the G20 summit in Rio will contribute to multilateralism. He also emphasized China's unique and rich experience in poverty alleviation, which is worth learning for other countries.
"China plays an important role in promoting global multilateral cooperation, which contributes to the development of countries in the Global South. Additionally, China has accumulated valuable experience in poverty alleviation. These aspects are worth discussing at the summit and learning for other countries," said Lins.
A Brazilian scholar believed China plays an important role in the international community, and also looked forward to its constructive role in promoting multilateralism.
"[It is a] critical moment for this platform to become more inclusive and somehow we can discuss education, financial, environmental protection and things like that. So everybody is looking to China right now, the same in Brazil. Basically the whole Global South, Brazil particularly, are really looking to China right now to be the spearhead, to move towards multilateral organization, more decisive, and I would say at the end of the day more inclusive for the Global South countries," said Fernando Brancoli, an associate professor of International Security, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Former Brazilian Ambassador to China Marcos Caramuru de Paiva said that China is an important participant of the G20 Summit.
"China is a big player in the international reality, in trade and in investment. So China has an enormous importance to each and every topic which is discussed within the G20," said Marcos Caramuru de Paiva, former.
Expectations run high in Brazil for China’s role in advancing Global South development
