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.

Last Wednesday, the City Hall of Recife received the visit of the Consul-General of China in Recife, Yan Yuqing. Received by the Deputy Mayor, Isabella de Roldão, the representatives of the Chinese community donated more than 100 thousand reais to help the City Hall to take care of the homeless caused by heavy rains in the state. Other members of the consulate were also present.

During a visit to Timor-Leste, the Chinese Foreign Minister pledged on last Saturday to strengthen and expand China’s cooperation with Timor-Leste and hailed the two-decade-long relationship between the two countries.

After announcing its plans to produce electric cars in Brazil, the Chinese car manufacturer BYD will start selling soon the first model which is planed to be produce in Brazil and is now still imported from China.

On 1st June, the Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a message of condolence to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro over the severe floods in Brazil, which have caused heavy casualties, according to the official Chinese news agency Xinhua.

Mobocity is a startup created by two Chinese, Yan Di and Zhang Zhen, who are respectively former AliExpress employee and founder of Influu. The company is trying to strengthen a phenomenon in Brazil that is very common in China: live commerce.

The inauguration of the Sino-Portuguese International Cooperation Centre for Investment and Trade (CCIICSP), based in the city of Guangzhou, took place on Wednesday. The inaugural session was streamed online with the participation of representatives from Chinese and Portuguese public and private entities.

From the 26th of May, the Frei Confaloni Museum, located in Goiânia city of Goiás state of Brazil, is open for the public to get to know the work of the Chinese artist Tai Hsuan-An, who has lived in Goiânia for 45 years. The exhibition is free to visit until June 15, from Tuesday to Sunday, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

China ranked third in foreign direct investment (FDI) in Angola between 2018 and 2022, according to data from Agency for Private Investment and Promotion of Exports of Angola (Aipex).

OIW Telecom, the Brazilian manufacturer and distributor of optical network equipment, has established a partnership with Chinese manufacturer Huawei to incorporate Huawei’s devices into its portfolio. The new products are mainly used for the expansion or upgrade of Internet Service Providers (ISP) that seek to evolve their production structures with appropriate costs and flexible access.