China’s Qingdao Port Group last week signed a memorandum on strategic co-operation with Brazilian metals and mining company Vale SA, several Mainland Chinese media outlets reported.

Chinese airline Capital Airlines, owned by Chinese aviation group HNA, has filed an application with the Civil Aviation Administration of China to operate what the carrier says would be Mainland China’s first direct scheduled air service to Portugal, Travel Daily reported on Monday.

The confidence of business people in Brazil’s trade sector improved in May to the highest monthly level since June 2015, Brazilian news agency Brasil reported.

China would promote the orderly opening of some services, including in the fields of finance, education, culture and healthcare to investment by foreign firms, China’s Minister of Commerce, Gao Hucheng, was reported as saying at the 4th China Beijing International Fair for Trade in Services, an event known as CIFTIS.

A business delegation from China’s Shandong province last week started a visit to Mozambique to explore partnership opportunities, Portuguese news agency Lusa reported.

Several Chinese firms are currently in talks to purchase Brazilian wind farms with an aggregate energy output capacity of 750 megawatts and Brazilian solar parks with an aggregate energy output capacity of 600 megawatts, reported news agency Reuters.

China’s CITIC Group Corporation is investing US$40 million on an aluminium factory in Angola. The plant will serve domestic demand and also export its products reported this week Portuguese news agency Lusa.

Representatives from the China-Africa Development Fund will start on Sunday a visit to Cape Verde, local newspaper A Nação reported this week.

The consumer price index of East Timor fell 1.7 percent year-on-year in April, the Ministry of Finance said on Wednesday.

China is willing to support Guinea-Bissau in achieving food self-sufficiency, said the Chinese Ambassador to the African nation, Wang Hua, according to online news portal Macauhub.

China Tiesiju Civil Engineering Group (CTCE) has built and managed a housing district, Sequela, in Angola’s capital, Luanda, state-run news agency Xinhua reported this week.

The number of tourists welcomed by Cape Verde in the first three months of this year increased by 17.2 percent year-on-year, to 190,653, the country’s National Statistics Institute has announced.