GWM Brasil executives learned about the competitive advantages that Espírito Santo has due to its strategic location, its port complex, the implementation of an Export Processing Zone (ZPE) and the State's tax incentive policy. The issues were addressed during a meeting with the governor of Espírito Santo, Renato Casagrande.

Chinese soybean imports from the United States were down 62% in July from the same month a year earlier, while shipments from Brazil, the main supplier to the Chinese market, were up 32%, as data showed on August. impulse of an abundant harvest and lower Brazilian prices.

BYD Energy do Brasil confirmed the launch of the new 555W–575W Harpia N-Type TopCon bifacial double glass solar panel. The novelty will be presented at Intersolar South America, which will be held from the 29th to the 31st of August at Expo Center Norte in São Paulo.

Over the next 18 months, the Chinese group Eternal Tsingshan will set up a dry port at the Machipanda administrative post, on the border between Mozambique and Zimbabwe, in an investment of around 13 million US dollars.

Clothing manufacturers in the state of Espírito Santo will be partners of the Chinese e-commerce company, Shein, and will produce to meet the company's operational demands.

The Youth Foundation announced on the 17th of August that three students from the Júlio Dinis Secondary School in Ovar will represent Portugal at the CASTIC - China Adolescents Science and Technology Innovation Contest between August 21 and 26 with a project on the biodegradation of plastics using maggots, which has already won an award at the Mostra Nacional de Ciência.

H&S Imobiliária is to invest more than one billion dollars in phases in housing projects, "despite the downturn in the real estate sector in Angola," announced the Angolan company, a subsidiary of the Beijing Haishan Holding Group.

Cofco International announced on the 18th of August the first pipeline in Brazil, connecting its biodiesel plant in Rondonópolis with nearby distributors, which will increase the competitiveness of the fuel.

The University of Madeira is the higher education institution in Portugal with the highest percentage of indexed publications with joint affiliation with Chinese institutions in the years 2021 and 2022 (13.0%), followed by the University of Minho (4.5%) and ISCTE (4.5%).

After meeting with the Chinese ambassador on the 16th of August at the Esmeraldas Palace, Governor Ronaldo Caiado (UB) announced that three companies from the Asian country have confirmed their interest in setting up in Goiás.

On the 27th of July, Volkswagen announced the acquisition of a 4.99% stake in the Chinese brand Xpeng for 630 million euros for the joint development of electric vehicles.

In 18 months' time, Mozambique will produce more than 9.3 million tons of cement, with the start-up of the second production unit of the company "Dugongo Cimentos Nampula", located in the district of Nacala, in the northern province of Nampula.