Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged his country and Portugal to cooperate more closely in the fields of energy, finance and infrastructure, and in third countries, Xinhua reports.

The regulator of the health industry in Brazil, Anvisa, says it has given permission for a third-phase clinical trial there of a vaccine against COVID-19 developed by Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. of the United States.

Cabo Verdean Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva has thanked China for its long-term support for the development of his country, and called for closer Sino-Cabo Verdeancooperation, the Chinese Embassy in Praia says.

A former coordinator of the Macao Polytechnic Institute Portuguese Language Pedagogical and Scientific Center, Carlos André, predicts that development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and its links with the Portuguese-speaking world will encourage more Chinese to learn Portuguese, Ponto Final reports.

Prime Minister Jorge Bom Jesus of São Tomé and Principe has said work on lengthening the runway at the airport on the island of São Tomé may begin soon, STP-Press reports.

Coal miner Ncondezi Energy Ltd and state-owned China Machinery Engineering Corp. (CMEC) have agreed to sign by September 30 the an engineering, procurement, construction contract for a 300 MW coal-fired power station in the northern Mozambican province of Tete.

On its opening day, a vaccination centre in China City, one of the largest Chinese retailing emporiums in Angola, administered vaccines against COVID-19 to about 300 people, the Angola Chinese News website reports.

The first scheduled air cargo service direct between China and South America has begun, the Dazhong Daily reports.

The main hospital in Cabo Verde, the Agostinho Neto University Hospital in the capital, Praia, will begin next Monday offering its patients acupuncture, Xinhua reports.

The authorities in Mozambique, pressing on with the national vaccination drive there, began yesterday giving second doses of the vaccine against COVID-19 devised by Sinopharm Group Co. Ltd of China, Jornal Notícias reports.

Brazilian merchants have become the first in the Americas – and sixth in the world – to sell their goods on the AliExpress shopping website run by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd of China, O Globo reports.

The Export-Import Bank of China (China Eximbank) and the authorities in Angola are negotiating the postponement of repayments of Angolan debt to the state-owned bank, Lusa reports, citing Chinese Ambassador to Angola Gong Tao.