The “Trip.com Group 2022 Global Partner Summit”, organized by the Chinese tourism company, Trip.com Group, opened on the 2nd of December. This is the second consecutive year that Macau has hosted this event.

The University of Macau has created an annual award for the best doctoral or master’s thesis in Portuguese language, law or Portuguese studies, in honour of Macanese writer and lawyer Henrique de Senna Fernandes.

On the 2nd of December, São Tomé e Príncipe and China signed a cooperation agreement for assistance between San Tomean largest hospital, Ayres Meneses and China’s Sichuan hospital, which aims at training the health staff, announced the ambassador Xu Yingzhen and the minister of Health, Célsio Junqueira.

BYD Brasil and the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) are developing together the construction of the first laboratory with total photovoltaic integration of BIPV (Building-Integrated Photovoltaic System).

It was last October that the first train of the 18 new trains made in China for the Porto metro was on its way to Portugal. It is expected that the unit will arrive in a few days at the port of Tarragona on a cargo ship and that it will then be transported by truck to the repair shops in Guifões, in Matosinhos. The other 17 trains should be in Portugal by the end of next year.

On the 29th of November, the 2nd edition of Oz Valley, held by the Department of Technology, Innovation and Economic Development of the Osasco Municipal Chamber at Teatro Municipal Glória Giglio, brought together startups, medium and small companies with the aim of boosting their businesses in technology, innovation and investments for the creation of the Osasquense Innovation Hub (HIO).

On the 28th of November, the Port of Rio Grande concluded the unloading operation of 128 tractors from China. The machinery arrived at the city of Rio Grande do Sul aboard the ship “Leopold Staff”, a vessel flying the Maltese flag of the Load in Load off (LoLo) type, which then sailed to the Port of Santos.

On the 2nd of December, Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi inaugurated two production lines for heavy sands, an investment made by the Chinese company Ding Sheng Minerals in the district of Chibuto, Gaza Province, southern Mozambique.

In November, the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (ApexBrasil) organized the Brazilian participation in the China High Tech Fair 2022, in Shenzhen. The action was led by the ApexBrasil China Office in partnership with the Brazilian Embassy in Beijing, to promote the internationalization of Brazilian technology companies in the Chinese market.

On 23rd of November, the Polytechnic Institute of Setubal (IPS) received the visit of Zhao Bentang, China’s ambassador to Portugal, who visited the Portuguese Lu Ban Workshop on the ground floor, a teaching and research unit in the area of Industry 4.0, installed in the institution since 2018, through a partnership with the Municipal Government of Tianjin. Zhao Bentang said he found in IPS a combinati

The 19th World Congress of Chinese Medicine was opened in São Paulo, Brazil on the 26th of November. The theme of the two-day conference was “to promote the global development of high-quality traditional Chinese medicine and contribute to the health and well-being of people in all countries.” The occasion marked the debut of the World Congress of Traditional Chinese Medicine in South America.

With the purpose of creating the basis for an exchange and cooperation platform in the area of health, in particular in the field of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the Piaget Institute announced on November 28th that it had signed a protocol with the Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, in Jiangsu province, in eastern of China.