The August 15, 1999, the Postal Service of Peru, SERPOST issued a stamp whose value was S/.1.50 Nuevos Soles (approximately $ 0.53), to commemorate 150 years of Chinese immigration to Peru.
mid nineteenth century there lived a golden age in Peru, because it crops like sugar cane and cotton were highly prized in the world. However, faced the problem of labor shortage, even though the incumbent president, Ramón Castilla, passed a law that encouraged the immigration of Asian workers, for which provided financial awards to those who brought Chinese workers to Peru . Between 1847 and 1880 came close to a hundred thousand Chinese in Peru.
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