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拉丁美洲的基建投资需要中国

To many South American leaders, Chinese Premier LiKeqiang’s visit this week couldn’t come at a bettertime, and from a better country. China has beenbusy with Latin America, surpassing the UnitedStates as South America’s leading exportdestination outside of the region, according to theChina-Latin America Economic Bulletin.

对许多南美国家领导人来说，本周来访的中国总理李克强选择了一个绝佳的时机，并且来自一个再好不过的国家。根据《中国-拉美经济通报》(China-Latin America EconomicBulletin)，中国一直与拉美往来密切，已超过美国成为南美在本地区之外的最大出口目的国。

What is more, the ink is barely dry on big loan agreements to Venezuela and Ecuador, or amajor China-Latin America cooperation plan signed in January that pledges to increase tradeby $500bn and investment by $250bn and to cooperate on science and technology, trade, andenvironmental protection.

此外，中国还刚刚与委内瑞拉和厄瓜多尔签署了数额庞大的贷款协议，并在今年1月签署了一项意义重大的中国-拉美合作计划，承诺将双边贸易额提高5000亿美元，将投资提高2500亿美元，并在科技、贸易和环境保护方面展开合作。

Now it’s the turn of Brazil, Peru, Chile, and Colombia, all destinations on Li’s itinerary. TheChinese are expected start implementing the cooperation plan with new agreements onscience, trade, and currency swaps.