“From Chancay to Shanghai is about mutual benefit, common development, and, more than anything, the happiness of ordinary people,” Xi Yue, our media ambassador from Xinhua News Agency, said during the 2026 Belt and Road Journalists Forum.
Drawing on her years stationed in Latin America, Xi focused on how Peru’s Chancay Port narrows the enormous geographic divide between China and Latin America. She told the story of Jares, a young Peruvian engineer whose career and income greatly improved as the port took shape and officially opened. She emphasized that the port has significantly shortened travel time across the Pacific, bringing people from the two distant continents much closer. For Xi, journalism captures how Belt and Road projects shrink perceived distance between far-off nations, bring real-world gains to local residents, and advance mutually-beneficial common development despite being worlds apart.
Source: “Home of Journalists” Facebook