The Brazilian President Lula da Silva said on the 18th of January that he will go to China in March. The intention of a trip to China was anticipated by Chancellor Mauro Vieira during the work of the transitional cabinet.

On the 15th of January, the prize-giving ceremony for the Photography Contest in Portugal and the installation ceremony of the photographic station “Sino-Portuguese Eye” were successfully held in Lisbon. The Photographic Station “Sino-Portuguese Eye” is an initiative of the China News Service Pho2tos agency and Media International de Puxin.

The meeting between the Angolan President, João Lourenço, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of China, Qin Gang, on the 13th of January, focused on two axes: the solid boost in cooperation between the two countries and the increase in Chinese investment in Angola.

In order to implement the wind farms Pedra de Amolar I, Pedra de Amolar II and Paraíso Farol II, in Rio Grande do Norte, SPIC Brasil, a subsidiary of the State Power Investment Corporation of China, closed a financing of R$ 282.2 million with Banco do Nordeste (BNB). Together, the new plants will have 105 MW of installed capacity. The news was disclosed in the Valor Econômico newspaper on the 17th of January.

On the 16th of January, the Centro Social Chinês de São Paulo, led by the director of the social center, Andre Ye, together with the Associação de Caridade China Brasil, represented by President Sun Zongmin and his deputy Max Zheng, and the Associação de Caridade da Comunidade Chinesa do Brasil, represented by CEO Tony Wang, visited the neighborhood of Grajaú, in the south of the São Paulo city, to carry out the delivery of basic food baskets.

A delegation from the Chinese state-owned company Hunan Construction Investment Group Co (HNCEG), accompanied by the Representative of Guinea-Bissau to the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-Speaking Countries (Forum Macao), Mr. Abdú Jaquité, has been in Bissau since the 6th of January in 2023.

The Brazilian Association of Export Processing Zones (Abrazpe) and the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade of Xiamen (CCPIT Xiamen), which is a port city located on the southeast coast of China (Fujian province) with 4.29 million inhabitants, signed an economic and technological cooperation agreement in São Paulo on the 13rd of January. The event – China (Xiamen)-Brazil Economic and Trade Conference – was held in a hybrid format (face-to-face with online participation).

WIN Solar, a distributor of solar equipment belonging to the All Nations Group, closed a contract with the Chinese manufacturer of photovoltaic solar modules, ZNShine. The first order totals around 50 megawatts (MW) in generators, with the proposal to supply the stock to meet the demands of distributed generation projects in homes and businesses in Brazil.

Two varieties of transgenic sugarcane produced in Brazil were approved by the Ministry of Agriculture of China on the 13th of January. They are CTC20Bt and CTC9001Bt, which were developed by the Centro de Tecnologia Canavieira (CTC) and have 100% national technology.

Puretech Motor has entered 2023 with the start of the import and distribution of the Loncin brand for the Portuguese market. In a first phase, Loncin will sell a range of four models in Portugal: The Loncin GA200 and GA300 ATVs, the new top-of-the-range moto X700 Wolf and the LX700 UTV.

In order to promote continuous cooperation and multicultural exchange, the Guangdong Investment and Business Environment Promotion Conference in Brazil was held on the 12th of January at Casa de Portugal in São Paulo. The Deputy Consul General of China in São Paulo, Tian Yuzhen, attended the conference and delivered a speech.

After developer Scatec Solar signed an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) with oil company Equinor and Norwegian aluminum producer Hydro to develop a solar power plant in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Energy China announced in December the signing of two contracts for the construction of renewable energy projects.