Jack Ma, a Chinese web entrepreneur sometimes called his country`s `Bill Gates`, was Wednesday jeered by angry Peruvian textile workers who saw him as the negative personification of a China-Peru free trade agreement.

Around 200 traders in the Lima district of Gamarra gathered to protest a visit by Ma, who had been invited to speak to them by Peruvian Production Minister Elena Conterno, on the sidelines of an APEC meeting here.

`Get out of here!` the vendors yelled as more than 20 riot police formed a line between them and Ma.

Many considered their livelihoods threatened by the inflow of cheaper Chinese-made goods.

One of the protesters, a woman in her 50s who gave her first name as Luz, said she saw the Chinese businessman, owner of big e-commerce companies similar to eBay, as the dark side of the Peru-China free trade agreement whose negotiations were concluded Wednesday.

`Sooner or later,` she said, Peru will be filled `with badly made, cheap Chinese products.`

She added: `We are without work. We can`t compete with the Chinese.`

Ma, who struggled to make himself heard over the protest, said nervously he had `never seen a scene like this.`

`I haven`t come to sell them anything. I`ve come because I want them to sell to China. To sell to Japan. To sell their products to the world,` he said.

`If you don`t sell abroad, businessman in other countries will come to sell in your markets,` he said.

Conterno, coming to his defense before cutting short the speech, said Ma was `offering the possibility of running a shop on the Internet.`

She added that it `would have been easier` to have organized the speech in a chic area of Lima, but she wanted to take Ma to heart of an area that would be directly afected by the free trade accord.