The Angolan government has set up a committee of nine ministers to make preparations for a Sino-Angolan forum on investment, Lusa reports.

The Mozambique government expects the economy will grow by 5.5 percent next year, according to the Economic and Social Plan for 2017.

Baidu has established a US$60-million investment fund to support Brazilian start-ups, the Macauhub website reports.

China will partner with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation to improve African rice production, including in Cape Verde, the state-run news agency Xinhua reports.

Brazil’s central bank expects the country’s economy will grow by 1.3 percent next year following two consecutive years of contraction, the state-run news agency Xinhua reports.

China’s Ambassador to Angola Cui Aimin has praised the Angolan government’s efforts at dealing with the impact of falling commodities prices, the newspaper Jornal de Angola reports.

TAP Portugal’s first direct flights to mainland China will start next year, the Expresso newspaper reports. “We went to China and they [HNA Group] said we could have four weekly direct flights to Beijing next year and I believe that could be a reality before summer,” TAP shareholder David Neeleman was quoted as saying.

The Chinese economy will grow 6.6 percent in the fourth quarter, says the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

The Chinese Government will help fund the building of a Vocational Training Integrated Centre in Angola’s Huambo Province next year, the Jornal de Angola newspaper reports.

China and the Portuguese autonomous region of Azores are looking to enhance co-operation regarding the dairy sector, Portuguese news agency Lusa reports.

The government of Cape Verde forecasts that more than 650,000 tourists will visit the country this year, A Semana reports.

Brazil’s largest pension fund, Previ, will sell its 29-percent-stake in Brazilian electricity company CPFL Energia SA to State Grid Corp of China, Reuters news agency says.