The Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency has announced that a committee of a Sino-Brazilian joint commission will meet this year to discuss opening the Chinese market to Brazilian exports of rice.

The Brazilian subsidiary of Chinese state-owned construction company China Gezhouba Group Co. Ltd has bought a water supply company in the Brazilian city of São Paulo, Xinhua reports.

Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education Manuel Heitor has said he will look for partners in China and India for the Portuguese space programme, Exame Informática reports.

The Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency says China is among the 7 main markets where members of the Brazilian Footwear Industries Association hope to sell more shoes between now and 2020.

Angola and Mozambique are among 14 countries in eastern or southern Africa set to consider treating the Chinese yuan as a reserve currency, Xinhua reports.

President Filipe Nyusi has presided over the ceremonial opening of the Cimentos de Maiaia cement plant in Nacala, in the northeastern Mozambican province of Nampula, AIM reports.

Official figures indicate that Portugal was the 4th-biggest European source of Chinese imports of wine last year, Lusa reports.

Brazilian Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi has expressed hope that Brazil can sell more beef to China now the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has declared the whole country clear of foot-and-mouth disease through vaccination, Reuters reports.

Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs Augusto Santos Silva has said his government will give incentives for the development of e-commerce, Oushinet reports.

The Chinese Central People’s Government has published plans to open wider three free trade zones along the coast of China, Xinhua reports.

BYD Co. Ltd of China has agreed to build an urban monorail system in the northeastern Brazilian city of Salvador for 2.5 billion reais (US$689 million), Bloomberg reports.

A Delegation from Zhuhai Municipality, headed by the Vice-Mayor and member of the Standing Committee of the Zhuhai Municipality’s Party Committee, Mr Zhu Qingqiao, visited on May 21 the office of the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (Macao), also known as Forum Macao.