The Instituto Butantan, Brazil’s main vaccine manufacturer, submitted on Tuesday the documents to the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa), requesting to include children aged between 3 to 5 years in the vaccination group with the development of the vaccine CoronaVac by the Instituto Butantan and the Chinese biopharmaceutical company Sinovac.

The Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi announced on Tuesday the arrival of the Xiaomi 12 in Brazil, its top-of-the-line smartphone model, which was launched worldwide a month ago. The Xiaomi 12 has only one version configured with 256GB internal storage and 8GB RAM, costing R$9,499.99.

The Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT) has issued an internal call for inviting its research laboratories to join the Brazil-China Research Center for Agribusiness’ Sustainable Technology and Innovation in Mato Grosso (BCAgriMT).

The Chinese car brand BYD has recently launched the D1 electric hatchback in Mexico which was jointly developed by BYD and Didi Chuxing, a Chinese mobile transportation platform. Currently, BYD has carried out a model test in Brazil and plans to launch it later this year, revealed the Brazilian magazine Autoesporte.

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.