On the 30th of November, the Prime Minister, Taur Matan Ruak and the President of Timor-Leste, José Ramos Horta, officially inaugurated the Tibar Bay Port, the first public-private partnership (PPP) project in the country.

Father of modern Chinese literature, Lu Xun (1881-1936) is a little known author in Brazil. Recently, the publisher Aboio, in partnership with BiYiNiao do Livro, is making “Wild Grass” available in bilingual edition. It is translated by Brazilian Calebe Guerra, a PhD student in Classical Chinese Literature at Wuhan University.

Brazil imported 15.7 GW of photovoltaic modules from China between January and October, estimates a survey by PV Infolink, the photovoltaic solar energy branch of consultancy InfoLink Consulting. The country is the second largest buyer of Chinese solar energy equipment, behind only the European market.

The Federal University of Goiás (UFG) inaugurated the Confucius Institute for Chinese Medicine. During the ceremony, which was held on December 8th, there was the symbolic unveiling of the plaque of the institution and cultural performances with music and Tai Chi Chuan.

On the 9th of December, the ceremony for the delivery of medicines and medical equipment donated by the Government of China to São Tomé and Príncipe was held at the Armazém Covid in São Tomé. This time, China donated a lot of surgical equipment and medicine to the country, valued at around US$80,000.

Salvador will gain two dealerships of GWM, the Chinese automaker considered as one of the largest in China mainly in the electric vehicle field.

On the 9th of December, representatives of Jundiaí and the Chinese city of Gaoyou, in the province of Jiangsu, met to initiate negotiations to celebrate a cooperation agreement between the two cities so that they would become sister cities. The meeting was organized by InvestSP. The cities are now going to exchange information and in February they should sign a cooperation agreement.

The Hong Kong Museum of History is preparing an exhibition on the centenary presence of Lusodescendants in the Chinese region, which is scheduled to open in mid-2023, the project coordinator said on the 12th of December.

The Ministry of Tourism published in the Diário Oficial da União (DOU) on the 5th of December the results of the accreditation process of tourism agencies that are able to receive groups of Chinese tourists in Brazil. In all, 39 companies were accredited.

On the 8th of December, China HomeLife Brazil was inaugurated with a queue of more than 3,000 people in the morning. The event has been attracting attention each year from traders from 15 sectors in China who bring their products to show in Brazil. ChinaHomelife was held until the 10th of December, 2022 at the São Paulo Expo. The fair not only continu

The Chinese technology company Huawei has announced the second edition of its scholarship program for Portuguese university students. This time, the technology company will support 50 more students of undergraduate, master and Ph.D .

The consortium led by Mota-Engil, which also includes two Chinese groups, China Communication and Construction Corporation (CCCC) and China Road and Bridge Corporation, has been selected by the state of Lagos in Nigeria, to build a bridge worth US$2.5 billion. CCCC is the shareholder of Mota-Engil.