Grande ABC, a traditionally industrial region in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, could gain new automakers. The ABC Metalworkers’ Union announced the signing of a protocol of intentions with representatives of the Chinese companies Beijing Peak Automotive and Chery, which would be willing to produce electric buses, among other vehicles in this region.

On the 13th of July, the Government of Rio Grande do Norte received the Sino-Brazilian mission that comes to know and validate the areas where agricultural machinery manufactured in China. The visit is the result of the memorandum of understanding signed during the trip of Governor Fátima Bezerra and secretaries of state to China between the 11th and 19th of April this year.

Journalists from the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), participants in a training seminar in Beijing (China), took a sightseeing tour of the Great Wall of China, one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World, on the 16th of July.

On the 13th of July, the Brazilian city of Aracaju formalized a partnership with the Chinese city of Yantai, in a ceremony held in the capital of Sergipe.

Between the 26th of June and the 7th of July, the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), through its rector, Professor João Chrysostomo, went on an academic and scientific mission to China to strengthen academic ties between Brazil and China.

For three weeks, 17 students from Beijing Normal University are in Coimbra, Portugal, for a program carried out in partnership between the Faculties of Letters, Law and Economics of the University of Coimbra (UC).

On the 7th of July, the governor of Amapá, Clécio Luís, visited the water desalination system with Chinese technology in João Câmara, Rio Grande do Norte, in Brazil.

A contract with Chinese clothing retailer Shein for the lease of 135,000 square meters at the GLP Guarulhos II project area, 18 kilometers from São Paulo, was closed between the logistics condominium company GLP and the Chinese clothing retailer Shein.

The first member of the Board of Directors of the Guinea-Bissau National Cashew Agency (ANCA-GB), Mustafá Seide Bari, said in an interview with the Nô Pintcha newspaper that the government of Guinea-Bissau has asked the Beijing authorities to open its market for the acquisition of Guinea-Bissau cashew nuts requested.

Aware of the importance that the Brazilian market has for the global market, especially in the agricultural and food sectors, CIIE sent a delegation to Brazil for a series of meetings in search of greater cooperation for the promotion of the 6th edition of the fair that will take place between the 5th and 10th of November this year.

Standard Bank recently participated in the third biennial edition of the China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo (CAETE), which took place in Hunan province, China, having invited, within the scope of promoting the export of products and the connection from Mozambican companies to new markets, three national companies taking part in the event, namely the National Sustainable Development Fund (FNDS), Moi International and Agritec, which operate in the agricultural sector.

Brazil’s beef exports had a recovery in June, but closed the semester with a drop of 3.8%, to 1.02 million tons, with the sector dealing with an embargo from China (already suspended), data from the Abiec, an association that brings together the country’s main exporters.