With closer ties in trade, investment and culture, cooperation between China and Peru has entered the "fast lane."

Chinese President Xi Jinping is currently in Lima, Peru's capital, for the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting and related events and a state visit to Peru, the second leg of his week-long trip in Latin America.

Xi's visit comes hot on the heels of Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's state visit to Beijing in September, the Peruvian president's first foreign trip in his new capacity.

Such intense high-level interactions "will send a strong signal of China and Peru working together for common development," wrote Xi in a signed article on Peruvian newspaper El Comercio prior to his visit.