The construction of the Palace of Culture in Guinea-Bissau will start this year, which will be funded and undertaken by a Chinese company, said Guinea-Bissau’s Secretary of State for Culture, Francelino da Cunha.

The Chinese car manufacturer Caoa Chery announced on Friday that the Jacareí factory in Brazil will undergo a transition to meet the global demand for sustainable transportation. Caoa Chery hopes that the electrification of all models from this brand can be completed by the end of 2023.

According to the Portuguese newspaper Público, the University of Lisbon plans to establish a new faculty in China in September, in collaboration with Shanghai University, offering bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in engineering in the following academic year.

The president of the League of Chinese in Portugal and Portugal-China SMEs Chamber of Commerce, Y Ping Chow, believes that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in China and Portugal need to further strengthen their cooperation, and Macao can become a distribution center for Portuguese goods in Mainland China, according to Plataforma Macau.

The state-owned Power Construction Corporation of China (PowerChina) and Jinan Yuxiao Group signed an EPC contract for the Nipepe 110kV transmission line project in Mozambique. The cooperation with the mining company is an important milestone, consolidating PowerChina’s dominant position in power transmission and distribution.

Brazil is the world’s fourth largest producer of manganese, after Ukraine, South Africa, and Australia. According to the data from the Ministry of Economy of Brazil, most of Brazil’s manganese ore is sold to China.

The Margarita Manuel cassava flour processing factory in São Tomé and Príncipe resumed operations last Thursday, after the completion of the renovation project carried out by the Chinese agricultural technical team in São Tomé and Príncipe.

Faculty members and students in the Department of Portuguese, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau (UM), have worked together to translate the Chinese literary classic Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio and the poetry collection I Don’t Believe in the Echo of Thunder into Portuguese.

On Tuesday, President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to Jose Ramos-Horta on his election as President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste.

In the first quarter of 2022, China exported 37.2 GW of photovoltaic modules with an increase of 112% over the same period of last year, in which Brazil imported 4.9 GW of modules, with an 84% increase on last year’s 2.6 GW, according to a study by PV Infolink.

The brazilian mining company Vale received at the end of April its second 100% electric locomotive manufactured in China by CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive (CRRC ZELC), acorrding to Vale.

Under the contract regarding Brazil’s postal service, Aura Airlines in Spain started to operate several flights from China to Brazil in the first quarter of this year. The cooperation is a great success, as evidenced by new flights requested weekly and the four flights that have already been scheduled merely in May.