China will send 1,000 tons of food aid to Guinea-Bissau, which is due to arrive at the port of the Guinean capital in the next ten days, the Chinese ambassador to the African country, Guo Che, announced on the 3rd of February.

On the afternoon of the 1st of February, the governor of the State of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas, met with China’s Consul General in São Paulo, Chen Peijie, to discuss future cooperation actions between the country and the state. In 2022, the trade flow between the two parties reached US$29.1 billion, with the state leading the Brazilian ranking of imports from China.

The Representative of Guinea-Bissau to the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (Macao), Mr. Abdú Jaquité, said that the photovoltaic plant that Chinese company Hunan Construction Investment Group plan to install in the country will fill the existing gap that will exist, even with the start of operations of the power provided by the OMVG dam.

The government of the state of Nuevo León stated in a Twitter post on the 1st of February that the works on the Monterrey metro would begin in 10 days.

According to Brazilian bank Bradesco BBI, the Chinese reopening has improved ore prices, and Vale is well positioned to reap the rewards.

The bulk carrier “Apollo”, with about 51,200 tons of Brazilian corn imported by COFCO, arrived on the 31st of January at the port of Jiangyin, in Jiangsu province.

To discuss ways for the Brazilian social development, the Minister of Social Development, Wellington Dias, received the visit of Zhu Qingqiao, Chinese ambassador to Brazil on the 31st of January.

Angola has raised US$1.95 billion from exporting around 8.75 million carats of diamonds in 2022, the Ministry for Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas said on the 27th of January.

Tecnophage, a biotechnology company from Portugal, wants to launch in Europe this year a supplement aimed at Parkinson’s disease, based on research by the University of Macau on alpinia oxyphylla, a fruit used in traditional Chinese medicine.

In 2022, China sold US$3.18 billion in automotive components to Brazil, which represented a 16.2% growth over the total of US$2.74 billion recorded in 2021. The sale of auto parts produced in the United States to the Brazilian market reached US$ 2.42 billion last year, a volume 23.9% higher than the previous year, which was US$ 1.96 billion.

In an interview with CCTV, the Chinese Ambassador to Brazil, Zhu Qingqiao, defined cooperation projects between China and Brazil in each area and Sino-Portuguese relations. He said that since the establishment of diplomatic relations, cooperation between the two nations has become increasingly close.

The Chinese-owned company Sociedade Niobonga – Comércio Geral is set to start to exploit the reserves of Niobium, a rare mineral used in manufacture of turbines, spaceships, planes, missiles, power plants and superconducting steel alloys.