Brazilian Clean Tech company Pontoon has reached an agreement with construction giant PowerChina for the development of large-scale solar photovoltaic power generation projects in Brazil. The strategic partnership begins with the Intrepid solar energy complex, located in Ceará, which will have an installed capacity of 425 MWp and an investment of 1.8 billion reais in the engineering, acquisitions and construction phase.

The ambassador of the People’s Republic of China accredited to Angola, Gong Tao, highlighted, in the village of Lândana, Cacongo, the fact that the district has great potential that could attract investments from Chinese businessmen in the field of tourism.

A delegation from Famalicão of around 30 people linked to the textile industry is currently in China, where for two weeks they will have the opportunity to share experiences, bring companies closer together and encourage exchange between companies and institutions of the scientific and technological system.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) will finance another project in Angola with US$125 million in the urban areas of Benguela province, a person responsible for the institution told Lusa.

The governor of Bahia, Jerônimo Rodrigues, met with the Chinese Ambassadors to Brazil, Zhu Qingqiao, with the consul-general in Rio de Janeiro, Tian Min, and other members of the Chinese delegation to discuss the main projects of Bahia in partnership with the Asian country.

On the 30th of May, Brazil and China signed an agreement for scientific cooperation in research applied to the use of synchrotron light sources in Campinas (SP). The signing was between he National Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), which houses the super laboratory Sirius, one of the three fourth-generation synchrotron light sources in operation in the world, and the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEPS).

Forseed, one of the brands of the Chinese multinational LongPing High-Tech, will export for the first time corn seed genetics developed in Brazil to China.

The Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (IPS) signed a letter of intent for cooperation with the Tianjin University of Technology and Education and the Tianjin Vocational College of Mechanics and Electricity, establishing the creation of a professional certification test center in the field of automation and artificial intelligence.

On the 30th of May, the Chinese giant CGN Brazil Energy signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Brazilian company Quinto Energy aiming to implement a mega complex of wind and solar energy, in the hinterland of Bahia, focused on the production of green hydrogen in large scale.

On the 29th of May, the governor of Rio Grande do Norte, Fátima Bezerra, met at the State governor’s office with Chinese investors to present the project of the Green Industry-Port, which aims to be built in Caiçara do Norte, in the interior of the state. The intention of the State government is to make a Public-Private Partnership.

Macau and Portugal undertook to disseminate the collection of “Chapas Sínicas”, a set of documents in Chinese classified as UNESCO Memory of the World, within the scope of a protocol in the field of archives signed on the 25th of May in Lisbon.

The first shipment of 55,000 tons of lithium from Brazil, a rare metal vital for the manufacture of batteries for electric cars, arrived at the port of Quanzhou, in China’s Fujian province, according to Quanzhou Business News on the 29th of May.