CCTV News: The China-Latin America Forum is an important platform for China to carry out mutually beneficial cooperation with Latin America and Caribbean countries. The fourth ministerial meeting of the China-Latin America Forum was held in Beijing on May 13. It coincides with the 10th anniversary of the official operation of the China-Latin America Forum, and this session has important significance in connecting the past and the future. Against the backdrop of the interweaving of the international situation and the challenges facing peace and development, how can China and Latin America work together to promote unity and self-reliance of the "Global South"? What kind of internal motivation is driving the China-Latin America relationship to achieve "acceleration"? Let’s see the reporter to observe.

At this ministerial meeting, China and Latin America and the Caribbean countries reached an action plan for the next three years on cooperation in a number of key areas such as infrastructure, science and technology, agriculture, etc., providing a detailed roadmap for the overall cooperation between China and Latin America, and the quality and multilateral cooperation between China and Latin America has been upgraded again.

Brazilian President Lula, Colombian President Petro and Chilean President Bolic led heavyweight delegations to attend the meeting, highlighting the Latin American side's high attention to China-Latin America cooperation.

Ten years ago, the first ministerial meeting of the China-Latin America Forum held in Beijing officially ushered in a new stage of bilateral cooperation and overall cooperation in China-Latin America relations. Over the past decade, China-Latin America's integration of interests has continuously achieved new gains. In 2024, China-Latin America trade volume exceeded US$500 billion for the first time, more than 40 times that of the beginning of this century. There are more than 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries in the big family of jointly building the "Belt and Road". A number of major infrastructure projects such as the Meishan UHV transmission line in Brazil, the Qiankai Port in Peru, and the Jamaica North-South Expressway are steadily advancing. As of November last year, China has five free trade partners in Latin America. With the continuous release of free trade dividends, more than 90% of Chilean cherries are sold to China, and Latin American specialty agricultural products such as Nicaragua honey and Honduran white shrimp are constantly enriching the "Chinese dining table". Of every 100 cars sold in Ecuador, 37 are from China.

China and Latin America unite and cooperate to create a trans-Pacific super market of 2 billion people, providing inexhaustible impetus for China and Latin America's development and revitalization, and providing confidence and confidence for China and Latin America to be feared of any blackmail and suppression. Experts said that China and Latin America have a strong desire to develop relations, and the mechanism is becoming increasingly perfect, experience is becoming increasingly rich, and the endogenous driving force is very strong. The dimension of China-Latin America cooperation continues to expand, especially China and Brazil have put forward the "six-point consensus" to resolve the Ukrainian crisis in a political manner, and initiated the establishment of the "Friends of Peace" group to allow more "global southern" countries to make their own voices. When facing the impact of the external world environment and some internal challenges, as long as both sides follow the current roadmap, they will surely inject more certainty and stability into the turbulent world.