Brazilian telecommunications companies hired the Chinese ZTT International Submarine Cable & System as a cable supplier for three more stretches of the North Conectado Amazonian River Fiber Project.

BYD benefited the residents of Baixada Santista, in Guarujá, with the first fully electric bus for public transport in the city. The circulation will begin after a 30 days testing.

On the 17th of February, a commemorative reception was held in Beijing on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Angola, organized by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) and the Angolan Embassy in Beijing.

The Spring Festival Gala will be shown for the third consecutive year exclusively in Brazil starting on the 26th of February on the pay-TV channel FashionTV and on Box Brazil Play. China Media Group (CMG) has signed the deal in collaboration with Grupo Box Brazil.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will have his first meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the 28th of March, on his first trip to the country in his third term.

According to a company statement, Portos e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique (CFM) is supporting construction work on 72 kilometers of the Bangula-Marka railway line, linking the districts of Mutarara and Malawi. The Chinese company CR20 is responsible for the construction of the Malawian Railway. The works are already being completed at a rate of 17%.

Cell phones are already considered essential items in the lives of Brazilians. According to the IBGE survey, there are around 242 million smart cell phones in use in the country, which has just over 214 million inhabitants, a number greater than the population of Brazil.

A twinning agreement was signed on the 16th of February between Maringá and the city of Yongzhou, in China. The ceremony took place at the headquarters of the Commercial and Business Association of Maringá (Acim) to seal the partnership, which seeks to exchange economic, cultural and tourist knowledge between the cities.

In early February, the delegation of the Hunan College of Foreign Languages, led by the vice president, Dr. Ning Xiang, accompanied nine students to Angola to start their internship and conducted field investigations and visits in the country.

According to data revealed by Farmnews, in January 2023, Brazil renewed the beef export record for the period of the year, adding up to the equivalent of 160.2 thousand tons, a value 16.0% above the previous record in January of 2022 (138.0 thousand tons).

With the Chinese reopening, Goldman Sachs bank revised its projection for China’s growth from 4.5% to 5.5%. The bank also estimates that a 10% increase in the price of commodities, especially iron ore and soy, could add 0.5 percentage points to the growth of the Brazilian GDP.

The Innovation Space of the Science and Technology Park (PCT) Guamá hosted, on the 14th, 15th and 16th of February, the symposium “Belém – China: Business and Opportunities”. Lectures, debates and seminars with the aim of establishing institutional relations and cooperation with Chinese public and private organizations were part of the program.