Chinese President Xi Jinping has inaugurated a new megaport in the small fishing city of Chancay while in Peru for the APEC forum. But local fishers and business owners are not happy with the preparations for the opening.
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00:00Chinese President Xi Jinping has inaugurated this new megaport in central Peru that Beijing
00:05says will transform trade across South America.
00:08What we are witnessing is not only the development of the Belt and Road Initiative in Peru, but
00:20also the birth of a new era, a new channel in the Aral Sea.
00:28The $3.6 billion project began in 2019 on Peru's central coast, just 75 kilometers
00:34from Lima, in this small fishing community called Chancay.
00:38Preparations for the inauguration have brought the community to a standstill.
00:42The captain has told us that the tour is not going to happen today because it has to close
00:47because it is going to be inaugurated at the back of Cozcochipi.
00:50What bothers us is that we are not allowed to go out to work for five days.
00:56We can't go out to work because of the inauguration, supposedly for security reasons.
01:00People are day-to-day, they are independent fishermen, and they should talk before they
01:06form those five days that they are not allowed to go fishing.
01:11Xi inaugurated the port during his visit to Peru for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
01:16Forum, where more projects between the two countries are expected, helping propel China's
01:21aims to be a new trade leader in South America.
01:23Scott Huang, Reese Ayres and Harrell Hughes in Chancay, Peru for Taiwan Plus.