Ambassador Forum

—— RDCY Forum for Area Studies No.4

Marco V. Balarezo Lizarzauru,

Ambassador of Peru to China

From Chancay to Shanghai: Peru-China Diplomatic Relations and Cooperation & Assets of APEC Peru 2024

In November 2024, Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the 31^st APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting and pay a state visit to Peru. He also attended the inauguration ceremony of Chancay Port by video link with Peruvian President Dina Boluarte together. As a flagship project for the high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative between China and Peru, Chancay Port will significantly shorten transoceanic shipping times, reduce logistics costs, create numerous job opportunities, help build a gateway that connects land and sea, Asia and Latin America, and establish a comprehensive, diverse and efficient interconnected infrastructure framework. A new Asia-Latin America land-sea corridor for the new era is taking shape. In view of this, the "Ambassador Forum" of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin Universtiy of China (RDCY) will honorably invite the Ambassador of Peru to China, Mr. Marco V. Balarezo Lizarzauru, to visit the university and deliver a speech on January 8, 2025 as the forth forum speaker, exclusively sharing his insights about Chancay Port as a new starting point of an Inca Trail of the New Era and the outlook for the brighter future for China-Peru relations.

Host: Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (RDCY)

Time: 14:30-16:00, Wednesday, January 8, 2025 (Beijing Time)

Venue: Cultural Building 602

(No.59 Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100872, China)

Languages:Chinese, English (simultaneous interpretation available)

Speaker: Marco V. Balarezo Lizarzauru, Ambassador of Peru to China

Marco V. Balarezo Lizarzauru took up his position as Peru’s Ambassador to the People's Republic of China (PRC) on March 15, 2023. Previously, he was the Ambassador of Peru to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay since March 15, 2021, when he left the position of Director General of Multilateral and Global Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru. He also served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Peru to Panama, Malaysia, and Cambodia (2011-2016), Vice Minister of Defense (2010), Director General of the Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs (2009), Deputy Regional Representative for the Americas of the World Tourism Organization (2006-2008)，Director General of the World Trade Organization and International Economic Negotiations (2005), positions of Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations based in New York (200-2005), Counselor (Commercial) at the Embassy of Peru in Chile and Consul General in Santiago (1993-1997), as well as Secretary at the Embassy of Peru in the United States of America (1985-1991).

Agenda：

1. Opening Introduction (14:30-14:35)

Moderator: Wang Wen, Dean of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (RDCY)

2. Ambassador’s Speech (14:35-15:25)

Speaker: Marco V. Balarezo Lizarzauru, Ambassador of Peru to China

3. Q&A (15:25-16:00)