Last Thursday, the Crateús campus of Brazil’s Federal University of Ceará (UFC) – Crateús campus officially opened the Engine Lab, created in partnership with the Chinese company Huawei, and the Mandacaru.dev lab, built with the support of B3 (stock exchange), BLK Sistemas Financeiros and PDtec.

A group of students from a Chinese school in Macau have been recording videos, which started to be shown on buses of the city to promote Portuguese culture through proverbs.

LongPing High-Tech, the Brazilian subsidiary of LongPing AgriScience, plans to quintuple its seed production capacity from 4 million to 20 million bags, aiming to lead in the corn seed market. The work will be completed by September.

Laiye is a Chinese artificial intelligence company created by Yichuan Hu and Guanchun Wang in 2015. As the demand for hyperautomation with technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotic process automation grows, the company has kicked off its internationalization plan and its operations in Brazil.

Nine fine-stroke peony paintings from Heze, the home city of the peony in Shandong Province, were established officially on this Monday in Colombo, located in the Paraná state of Brazil.

The Brazilian company Vast Infraestrutura and PetroChina International (Hong Kong) Corporation Limited, an affiliate of PetroChina International Company Limited (PetroChina Intl.) signed this week a long-term contract to run transshipment operations at Vast’s terminal in Açu Port, in São João da Barra in Rio de Janeiro state. The agreement foresees the transshipment involving vessels like Aframax, Suezmax, and VLCC.

Tencent, the world’s largest gaming company, announced on Monday that it will have an official presence in Brazil with the opening of an office and a local team. The Chinese multinational is the developer of games that are extremely popular with the Brazilian audience, such as “League of Legends” and “PUBG Mobile.”

Chinese online fast-fashion retailer, Shein, began exploring the physical channel in 2018 and opened its first temporary store in New York. From 4 to 12 June, the fast-fashion brand will open a pop-up store, created in collaboration with a Swedish fintech company, Klarna, in the capital of Portugal, Lisbon.

SPIC Brasil, a subsidiary of State Power Investment Corporation of China, announced last Thursday the acquisition of two solar power generation projects from Canadian Solar. Thus, SPIC now has 70% stake in these projects, and it now enters the solar energy generation segment.

The Chinese automaker BYD plans to acquire Ford’s plant in Camaçari, Bahia, to expand the production of its electric cars and generate thousands of job opportunities

Brazil Post continues to engage a high volume of dedicated cargo flights from China to Brazil. Since flights are delayed or canceled because of COVID-19 and international flights have not yet fully resumed, chartering aircraft is a way to ensure ensure trade flows and parcels delivery.

Beijing Capital Airlines confirmed that the direct flights between Portugal and China will resume on June 11, with one flight per week, after being suspended for over six months.