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.

In Portugal, the Chinese car brand Airways has five points of sale and assistance in Lisbon, Porto, Loures, Sintra and Cascais.

To complete the project, the Brazilian companies Hidro Elétrica do So Francisco (Chesf) and Goldwind signed a R$ 66.6 million contract to supply equipment for the Casa Nova B Wind Farm in Bahia. The project has an installed capacity of 27 MW, distributed over 18 wind turbines.

A new air cargo service connecting the coastal city of Xiamen in southeastern China to São Paulo in Brazil was launched on the 10th of February. At 10:40 am, an Ethiopian Airlines flight carrying 96.1 tons of cargo departed from Gaoqi International Airport in Xiamen, bound for São Paulo, the largest city in South America. It was the first flight to Brazil carried out by the airport’s first cargo service.

On the 7th of February, the creation of the Bahia-China Parliamentary Front was registered, which will be chaired by state deputy Angelo Almeida. The objective is to strengthen cooperation between the state and the country, as well as create educational mechanisms that strengthen the culture between Bahia and China, with the participation of the Confucius Institute, which is maintained by the Chinese International Education Foundation.

In partnership with the Chinese Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL), Pernambuco battery manufacturer Moura supplies lithium battery systems and their components for the new 100% electric trucks of Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus (VWCO).

The seventeenth medical mission of the People’s Republic of China to São Tomé and Príncipe, made up of doctors and experts from the West China Hospital, shared minimally invasive surgery techniques with local doctors, giving classes in laparoscopic and suturing techniques.

The Pet Brasil Institute (IPB) and the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil) promote the webinar “How to sell Pet Food to China”, a virtual event that was held on the 8th of February on the Zoom platform. Participants was able to attend two lectures: “Animal feed opportunities in China: how to sell Brazilian animal feed products to China” and “Supply chain services for animal feed brands”.

The first of the 18 metro vehicles manufactured by the Chinese company CRRC Tangshan was delivered to Porto Metro of Portugal on the 11th of February. The vehicle is on display at the Trindade Metro Station, in the center of Porto, from the 11th to the 14th of February. The first vehicle will start its service in May, after several tests.