Brazil’s chicken meat exports are expected to increase 8 percent in 2016, partly due to an increase in sales to China, the Brazilian Animal Protein Association (ABPA, in the Portuguese acronym) said this week.

Inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) to China rose 5.1 percent year-on-year to US$69.42 billion in the first half of 2016, China’s Ministry of Commerce announced on Tuesday.

The Angolan economy is expected to grow by 1.3 percent in 2016, according to the latest estimate provided by the African nation’s Finance Ministry.

Portuguese language teaching materials drafted by Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) will be published in Mainland China in September, said the institute’s president, Lei Heong Iok.

A delegation from China is due to meet on Wednesday Portugal’s Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development, Luís Capoulas Santos, online news portal AgroNegócios reported.

The Mozambican Government predicts the country’s economy would grow 4.5 percent this year, said last week Adriano Maleiane, the Minister of Economy and Finance for the African nation.

China and the Angolan region of Cabinda could co-operate further, including by communities in the two places establishing ‘twin city’ links, said the Chinese Ambassador to Angola, Cui Aimin.

Portugal is willing to support the Guangdong-Macao Traditional Chinese Medicine Technology Industrial Park, in its efforts to establish Traditional Chinese Medicine centres abroad. So said the company that manages the park, in a statement issued on Sunday. The facility, known as GMTCM, is located on the mainland’s Hengqin Island, next door to Macao.

China’s consumer price index grew 1.9 percent year-on-year in June, the National Bureau of Statistics of China announced over the weekend.

Brazil’s interim President, Michel Temer, is due to visit China in September to sign a trade and services co-operation deal with the Asian nation, the Brazilian government said on Friday.

Chinese company Shanghai Electric Power (SEP) and African firm Ncondezi Energy have reached a deal to build a thermoelectric power station in Mozambique, Portuguese news agency Lusa reported.

The amount invested by foreign citizens in Portugal under its so-called Golden Visa scheme more than doubled year-on-year in the first six months of 2016, to 509 million euros (US$563 million), Portuguese news agency Lusa reported on Thursday.