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.

Chinese-funded work on enlarging the Luachimo hydroelectric power station in the northeastern Angolan province of Lunda Norte is due to be finished this year, Angop reports, citing Lunda Norte Governor Ernesto Muangala.

The Chinese Embassy in Bissau says it arranged for 400 Chinese living in Guinea-Bissau that are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to receive booster jabs free of charge last week.

Enterprises in the China-Africa Economic and Trade Cooperation Promotion and Innovation Demonstration Park in the central Chinese city of Changsha are seeking exports of farm produce from Angola, Angop says, citing the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Angola.

The Mellower chain of cafes in China is observing its Brazilian Coffee Month at branches in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Kunming, the China Hoje website says.

A public figure has suggested that Hengqin Island, part of the southern Chinese province of Guangdong which abuts Macao, could become a centre for dubbing or subtitling Chinese-language films and television programmes in Portuguese, and vice-versa, the Macao Daily says.

Timorese Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Joaquim Amaral is attending the annual meeting China holds for prospective members of the World Trade Organization (WTO), which ends today, his government says.