On the 1st of August, the city council of Duque de Caxias signed a memorandum of understanding with Nansha, Guangzhou district, a city in China. The intention is to have a close relationship in terms of cooperation in economy and trade, education, smart city, free trade port, culture and tourism, making them sister cities.

A survey carried out by the Association of Brazilian Information Technology Companies (Assespro-PR), with data from 2012 to 2019, shows that telecommunications companies continue to be the main patents applicants for embedded software at the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) .

After the recent opening of the Chinese market to exports of soybean meal from Brazil, the qualification of companies that will be able to ship the product to China will take place in one and two months, Brazilian Agriculture Minister, Marcos Montes, said on 1st of August .

The Brazilian technology company Zenvia rang the bell on 27th of July at the Nasdaq stock market in the United States. It made a growth plan for the coming years after finishing its tenth acquisition this year. Supported by the Chinese company Tencent, one of Zenvia’s shareholders, the company’s goal is to increase its annual revenues by 30% by 2025.

In the first half of 2022, Brazil exported 36% less oil to China than in the same period last year. Likewise exports to India fell 53.8%. It is expected that the Brazilian exports tends to remain lower.

The new service center of the Chinese company Alibaba Cloud was inaugurated in Porto on the 28th of July to satisfy the demand for digital services in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

The pre-inspection of tobacco from Brazil took place, once again, without the presence of technicians from the General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China (GACC) due to the pandemic. In the agreement with the GACC, the Department of Agriculture,

The Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Rio de Janeiro organized, during the month of July, a Administrative Capacity-Building Seminar for Portuguese-speaking Countries. Participants from Brazil, Angola, Mozambique and São Tomé e Príncipe attended the seminar.

China’s largest ocean freight company, COSCO Shipping, has officially launched the Iberia Sea-Rail Express. The first train departs from Valencia, Spain, on the 28th of July and arrived in Leixões on the following day. The departure back to Valencia took place on the 30th of July.

The Chinese smartphone brand OPPO makes its official debut in Brazil with the Reno 7. According to data from the International Data Corporation (IDC), OPPO is the fourth largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world, with about 8.7% of the market.

The seminar “Internet of Things: Towards a New Reality between Humans and Machines”, organized by the Brazil-China Business Council in partnership with the Chinese Embassy in Brazil, was held on the 27th of July.

On 27th July, Chinese equipment was transported to the Agostinho Neto University Hospital in Praia. On the occasion, the Minister of Health of Cabo Verde, Arlindo do Rosário, stated that the nation is aiming to integrate traditional Chinese medicine into the National Health Service as an alternative and complement to conventional medicine.