The Portuguese State will acquire, for 825,000 euros, a Chinese porcelain gomil (narrow-mouthed jar) from the beginning of the 16th century, which will be incorporated into the collection of the National Museum of Ancient Art (MNAA), the Ministry of Culture (MC) announced on the 17th of May. The acquisition will be made through the Commission for the Acquisition of Works of Art for National Museums and Palaces, created this year.

On the 17th of May, Petrobras announced that it had identified the presence of hydrocarbons in the pre-salt of the Santos Basin in an exploratory extension well in the Aram block. The well 3-BRSA-1387D-SPS is located 260km from the city of Santos-SP at a water depth of 1,979 meters.

The Instituto Mato-Grossense da Carne (Imac) signed a cooperation agreement to promote sustainable initiatives in Mato Grosso with the Tianjin Meat Industry Association, seeking to strengthen the sustainable Brazil-China beef trade with traceability, certification and financial mechanisms for better access to the market.

Zhao Bentang, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China in Portugal, accompanied by Xia Xiaoling, Economic and Commercial Counselor at the Embassy, Bernardo Mendia, Secretary General of the Portugal-China Chamber of Commerce & Industry and President of Portugal-Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce and Industry visited Albufeira.

Rio Grande do Norte will be the second state in Brazil to have a Gem Certification Laboratory. The information was highlighted by the president of the Union of the Extraction of Base Metals and Non-Metallic Minerals of RN (SINDIMINERAIS), Mário Tavares.

Great Wall Motors has just opened 32 points of sale of the brand in shopping centers in 14 states of Brazil. It is possible to get to know the three versions (Premium HEV, Premium PHEV, and GT) of the hybrid SUV Haval H6 up close and perform test drives in these points of sale.

On the 16th of May, China donated to the Agostinho Neto University Hospital (HUAN), in the city of Praia, around PTE 4,000 worth of hospital equipment to reinforce the improvement of the maternity service and the central operating room.

On the 15th of May, China Telecom do Brasil (CTB), the Brazilian subsidiary of China’s telecom giant, announced the launch of eSurfing Cloud services in Brazil.

Market expansion for sustainable beef and alignment of projects with companies and the Chinese government are the main objectives of the agendas that the Instituto Mato Grosso da Carne (Imac) carries out in China.

On the 12th of May, the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, inaugurated the water collection, treatment and distribution system, built by China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Co. Ltd in the town of Quissol, 12 kilometers east of the city of Malanje.

Twenty agricultural businessmen, local product processors, selected from all districts, including the Autonomous Region of Príncipe, left the country on the 11th of May, departing for the People’s Republic of China for a one-month training course on Processing and Storage Technologies for Agricultural Products. The course is organized by the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China.

Huawei Digital Power, a subsidiary of Chinese multinational Huawei, announced a partnership with Rio Alto Renewable Energy Group for the joint development of artificial intelligence solutions in photovoltaic plants. The expectation is that Rio Alto’s Coremas (365 MWp) and Santa Luzia (550 MWp) solar power complexes will be fully automated with artificial intelligence technology provided by Huawei within two years.