Official data indicate that Chinese investment in Brazil amounted to US$24.7 billion last year, the most for seven years, Bloomberg reports.

The preliminary official estimate is that the Mozambican economy expanded by about 3.7 percent last year, give or take 0.3 percentage point, Lusa reports.

Brazilian Association of Animal Protein Vice-President Ricardo Santin has said Brazil is now the main supplier of Chinese imports of pork, Brazilian news media report.

O Embaixador chinês em Angola, Cui Aimin, afirmou que o governo chinês continuará a providenciar bolsas de estudo a cidadãos angolanos.

Cushman & Wakefield forecasts that investment in retail real estate in Portugal will at least double this year, Bloomberg reports.

The annual rate of tourist price inflation in Cabo Verde was 2.5 percent in the first quarter of this year, A Semana reports.

Chinese have invested at least US$8.69 billion in Portugal since 2008, Bloomberg reports.

DBRS has raised its credit rating for Portugal by one notch to BBB, its second-lowest investment grade, with a stable outlook.

Chinese Vice-minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Zhang Taolin has said China and Mozambique should cooperate more closely in the field of agricultural technology, AIM reports.

China Jinjiang Environment Holding Co. Ltd has announced its intention to buy 51 percent of the stock of the first waste-to-energy project in Brazil for 38.5 million reais (US$11.27 million).

A delegation of the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (Macao), led by Deputy Secretary-General Dr. Rodrigo Brum, visited Guangzhou, in Guangdong Province, from April 14 to 15, to participate in the 123rd China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair).

Representatives of China and Portugal believe each country should show more of the films and television programmes made in the other, Xinhua reports.