Of the orders for goods from other countries that consumers in Portugal made online last year, 45 percent were for goods from China, Dinheiro Vivo reports.

The operator of the Guangdong-Macao Traditional Chinese Medicine Technology Industrial Park says it put on last month its first course in Cabo Verde for the training of practitioners of Chinese traditional medicine.

China State Construction Engineering Corp. Ltd says a subsidiary has begun building a hospital in the Mozambican coastal city of Beira.

The Chinese authorities are considering giving 19 cattle slaughterhouses, nine poultry processing facilities, one swine slaughterhouse and one donkey slaughterhouse in Brazil permission to export their output to China, Reuters reports, citing the Brazilian Association of Meat Exporting Industries and the Brazilian Association of Animal Protein.

Cabo Verdean Minister of Transport José Gonçalves has said a new ferry line which will link all the islands of Cabo Verde will begin operating on August 15, A Semana reports.

A subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) will take a stake of 55.6 percent in the holder of licences to drill for oil in the Sinapa and Esperança areas off the coast of Guiné-Bissau, Reuters reports.

COFCO Executive Vice-President Johnny Chi has said the Chinese commodities trader intends to increase investment in its operations in Brazil, where economic reform will improve the business environment, Reuters reports.

Angola shipped 1.84 million tonnes of crude oil to independent refineries in China last month, 18.8 percent more than the month before and 89.8 percent more than a year earlier, S&P Global Platts reports.

Governor João Doria of the Brazilian state of São Paulo has expressed hope that Chinese will invest in São Paulo, Xinhua reports.

Portuguese Trade and Investment Agency President Luís Castro Henriques has said his country will sell China more consumer goods, including wine, fruit and furniture, to meet demand there, the 21st Century Business Herald reports.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said his country is hoping for more trade with Timor-Leste, and for greater Sino-Timorese dealings in petrochemicals, manufacturing, farming and fisheries, Xinhua reports.

The dairy industry association in Brazil, Viva Lácteos, forecasts that the value of Brazilian exports of dairy products to China may reach US$4.5 million a year by 2021, now that the Chinese authorities have deemed 24 Brazilian dairies fit to trade with, Reuters reports.