On 16 October, a 16-member Brazilian delegation of young diplomats from the Rio Branco Institute, led by Gustavo Fortuna de Azevedo Freire da Costa, co-ordinator in the Institute’s Directorate, visited the Permanent Secretariat of Forum Macao for in-depth discussions on strengthening co-operation and broadening exchanges between China and Brazil. Secretary-General Ji Xianzheng and other members of the Secretariat attended the meeting.

Deputy Secretary-General Danilo Afonso Henriques gave a brief overview of the Secretariat’s functions and development. Delegation leader Gustavo Costa thanked the Secretariat for its welcome and introduced the Rio Branco Institute. The two sides exchanged views on making effective use of Forum Macao’s multilateral co-operation mechanism and developing economic and trade co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking countries, among other topics. The delegation then visited the Pavilion of the China-Portuguese-speaking Countries Commercial and Trade Service Platform.

Also present were Zou Xi, Counsellor at the Department of Latin American and Caribbean Affairs of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Zhang Yinan, Deputy Director of the Department of Policy Research at the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China in the Macao SAR; and a representative of the Macao SAR Government’s Education and Youth Development Bureau.