Beijing recorded an 11.6 percent growth in imports and exports during the first quarter of 2023, driven by robust trade with emerging market economies such as Brazil, according to data released by the city’s customs authority on the 25th of April.

Geraldo Alckmin, vice-president and Minister of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services, and Lyu Ze Xiang, president of China Energy International, met on the 29th of April in São Paulo. The stated-owned company plans to make investments of US$10 billion in renewable energy generation in Brazil over the next few years.

The Mozambican government has authorized the construction of a new port terminal in Chongoene district, Gaza province, which will handle heavy sands extracted by China, reads the statement from the Council of Ministers meeting on the 26th of April.

Companhia de Tecidos Norte de Minas (Coteminas) announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Shein. The memorandum provides that 2,000 of the company’s apparel customers will become suppliers of Shein to serve the domestic and Latin American markets. The partnership also covers financing for working capital and export contracts for household products.

CITIC Construction, a subsidiary of China’s CITIC Group, has signed an agreement with the municipal administration of Belas in Luanda, Angola’s capital, to cede its vocational training school as a temporary shelter for families affected by the heavy rains that hit the region last week.

On the 24th of April, Chinese President Xi Jinping received the credentials of 70 ambassadors to China, including Portugal, Brazil and Cabo Verde.

The governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas, announced on the 25th of April an investment of R$ 10 billion for the production of hybrid vehicles in the region of Piracicaba. The agreement is the formalization of the partnership with Chinese Great Wall Motors (GWM) and was signed at the automaker’s factory in Iracemápolis.

As part of the activities on World Malaria Day, the Chinese advisory office for the fight against malaria delivered antimalarial materials to the Victor Sá Machado Higher Institute of Health Sciences on the 24th of April, organized lectures on the disease and held a series of medical consultations for students and their families.

The deputy governor of the state of Goiás, Daniel Vilela, met with an entourage of executives representing the YTO Group Corporation – a company that is among the largest in the global market for agricultural and construction machinery. The meeting, held on the 24th of April, opened the dialogue on the project to set up a unit of the automaker in Goiás.

TCL, the Chinese multinational in consumer electronics, attended for the first time the Milan Design Week where it presented its novelties for 2023 in the entertainment area, as well as three television prototypes still under development.

The electric bus from Chinese BYD will begin to be tested on Curitiba’s public transport, from the 28th of April. The articulated model will circulate without passengers on the routes of the Interbairros II, Inter 2 lines and on the East/West Axis. To simulate the equivalent weight with a capacity of people, the vehicle will be loaded with water canisters.

Chinese fashion retailer Shein announced on April 20 that it will start manufacturing its clothes in Brazil, in an investment that could generate 100,000 jobs in three years. Initially, it should spend R$ 750 million to provide technology and training to Brazilian textile manufacturers to adapt their models to Shein’s for on-demand sales.