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Centro de la Amistad Peruano China

The Centro de la Amistad Peruano China (Peruvian-Chinese Friendship Center) is a cultural venue in Lima’s Jesús María district. The Chinese government funded the Centro with a 20-million-yuan donation, and the building was formally handed over to the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation, a body attached to Peru’s foreign ministry, between 2011 and 2015, during the ambassadorship of Huang Minhui (黃敏慧). The Centro is managed by the Patronato del Centro de la Amistad Peruano China, a private non-profit civil association, which says the building was a gift marking 150 years of Chinese immigration to Peru, built under a 2007 economic and technical cooperation agreement between the two governments. The Patronato consists of three members, two with strong to moderate ties to the Chinese Party-state. The first is the Chinese Benevolent Society (秘魯中華通惠總局), Peru’s oldest and largest Chinese community organization. PRC diplomats routinely attend the installation of its leadership, and in August 2025 it co-hosted a commemoration with the Peru Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China (秘魯中國和平統一促進會), a body tied to the CCP’s United Front system. The second is the Peruvian Chinese Cultural Center, which co-created a public park in Lima’s Miraflores district with the PRC Embassy. The third is the Peruvian Chinese Association, a heritage organization. The Patronato’s president, Erasmo Jesús Rolando Wong Lu Vega (黃業生), is a businessman and former civil engineer who founded the Peruvian Chinese Association in 1999 and whose business group holds a majority stake in the broadcaster Willax Televisión. The Patronato’s registered fiscal address in La Molina matches the address listed for Wong in the Panama Papers. In November 2024, the Centro hosted and supported a Chongqing propaganda office promotion event, at which the Western China International Communication Organization (西部國際傳播中心) opened a Lima liaison office for its Bridging News (陸海財經) brand. The Peruvian-Chinese Friendship Center had more than 23,000 followers on Facebook as of October 2026.

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