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.

The luxury car dealer in Brazil Eurobike had opened the first dealer store of the Chinese car brand BYD in Brazil the week before, said the Chinese car company.

Petrobras said last Saturday that it has started producing oil and natural gas through FPSO Guanabara, the first definitive production system installed in the Mero field located in the Santos Basin pre-salt.

Brazil plans to restart the construction of the Angra 3 Nuclear Power Plant, which has been suspended since 2015, in the second half of this year. Now about 80 workers are already mobilized for the resumption of construction.

China’s smartphone brand Vivo launches two new smartphones in Portugal this Monday, the Vivo V23 and Vivo Y76, marking its official entry into the Portuguese smartphone market.

East Timor’s president-elect, José Ramos-Horta, has called on Portugal and Macau SAR to collaborate with the country to establish regular Lisbon-Macau-Dili flights.