16:33 | Kunming (China), Sep. 16.
The Official Gazette El Peruano took part in the 2025 Media Cooperation Forum on Belt and Road, held in the city of Kunming, the People's Republic of China.
The event brought together over 200 global representatives from 87 countries, international and regional organizations, as well as 165 media outlets and institutions.
El Peruano Director (Editor-in-Chief) Felix Paz Quiroz highlighted the ties between ancient cultures and the development-oriented perspective that unite Peru and China.
He recalled that Chinese President Xi Jinping, during his visit to Peru last year and prior to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Week, published a historic article in El Peruano. In it, he outlined the future of China's relationship with Peru and South America.
Paz underscored that El Peruano is approaching its 200th anniversary this October 22.
"We are the longest-running newspaper in South America, and within our pages we preserve the history of republican Peru, as well as the most important events that have shaped the course of South America and the world," Paz told the audience.
"The aforementioned article by President Xi is one of them, along with other milestones such as the 1849 law on Chinese immigration to Peru, which led to the significant presence of Peruvians of Chinese descent nowadays," he noted.
Paz added that, in the context of global economic integration, media outlets face challenges such as leveraging technology alongside the fundamental principles of journalism, including the use of generative artificial intelligence.
"Since our first edition, nearly 200 years ago, El Peruano has traversed the path of reporting and combating fake news through the dissemination of official information," he noted.
Recent reports from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism place us at the forefront as a highly credible media outlet in Peru. In this regard, what we aim for is to work and strengthen ourselves through a process of digital transformation, Paz stated.
He also mentioned the collaboration with the Academia and the MediaLab of the Faculty of Letters at the National University of San Marcos in Lima.
The aim was that, through its artificial intelligence avatar called Illariy, developed by the university, content would be generated in indigenous languages.
Every weekend, a newscast is broadcast on the digital platforms of the Official Gazette El Peruano and Andina News Agency, featuring the most important news from our media outlets in Quechua language.
Jointly organized by the People's Daily, the Communist Party of China (CPC) Yunnan Provincial Committee, and the People's Government of Yunnan Province, the forum focused on shared media responsibility for exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations.
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Published: 9/16/2025