Guinea-Bissauhasbought the SYDONIA integrated customs management system with money given by China and the World Bank, Agência de Notícias da Guiné (ANG) says, citing a Guinean senior official, José Casimiro Varela.

The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Guangdong Provincial Committee has heard calls for efforts to attract technology companies in Portuguese-speaking parts of the world to set up shop in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong, the Macao Daily says.

Timorese Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Joaquim Amaral believes a three-day meeting held by China gave strong impetus to the effort by his country to accede to the World Trade Organization, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce says.

The Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute, or IPIM, says over 2,100 people attended a series of 10 weekly gatherings in Macao meant to promote sales of products of Portuguese-speaking parts of the world.

Among 573 artists in 117 different parts of the world whose work is exhibited at the 9th Beijing International Art Biennale, China 2022 are Sandra Lima e Silva of Brazil and Fátima Sardinha of Portugal, the website for the event shows.

The Portuguese regulator has given the China Classification Society the authority to inspect merchant ships flying the Portuguese flag, issue safety and pollution prevention certificates for them, and check the building of new ships, Diário de Notícias da Madeira says.

Industry data indicate that two Chinese automobile manufacturers sold over 2,000 light passenger vehicles in Angola last year, taking almost half the market for such vehicles, the Expansão website reports, without identifying the manufacturers.

An event should be held in Guangzhou, capital of the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, to show off the intangible cultural heritage of the city to young people in Portuguese-speaking parts of the world, the Macao Daily says, quoting Wong Ka Lun, a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Guangdong Provincial Committee.

Representatives of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd of China will tour Portugal next month with a view to enticing companies there to use its websites for selling online, the Portugal-China Chamber of Commerce and Industry says.

The Brazilian arm of Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group Co. Ltd (XCMG) of China has deployed over 100 XCMG construction machines to help efforts to rescue people from calamitous floods in the Brazilian states of Minas Gerais and Bahia, the People’s Daily says.

Increasing numbers of Chinese in Macao are studying the Portuguese language, Lusa says, citing International Lusophone Markets Business Association President Eduardo Ambrósio.

The University of São Paulo in Brazil and two institutions in China, Shenzhen University and the Belt and Road Research Institute, have agreed to set up the China-Brazil Research Centre for Innovation and Competitiveness, the Brazilian partner says.