Local time at 18:00 on November 18, 2016, the twenty-first APEC leaders summit officially kicked off Peru's National Grand Theater in Lima. Peru hosted the APEC summit in 2008, after a lapse of eight years the summit is back to Peru again. More than 1,000 representatives from 21 APEC economies attended the meeting. Shi Jianchao, Chairman of Runnan Group, was invited to attend the meeting.