- Guo Mingjuan has been in the cherry business since 2013, a time when imported cherries started gaining Chinese consumer favor.
- In 2020, exports of the LAC to the U.S. and the EU tumbled by 14 percent and 13 percent year on year, respectively, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, whereas its exports to China saw a year-on-year increase of 0.1 percent.
- Zhang Yong, a researcher with the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, attributed the rising numbers to China sharing its pandemic prevention and control expertise with LAC countries.
China and LAC countries expect new potential in economic and trade cooperation
