Belt and Road | Greater Bay Area
9 March 2021
The Chinese Ministry of Education has given permission for Hunan Normal University to offer a programme that teaches its undergraduates Portuguese, the Xiaoxiang Morning News reports. The programme is among 55 new programmes, including several in artificial intelligence, that universities in the southern Chinese province of Hunan have been given permission to teach, the Chinese … Continue reading "Hunan Normal University to teach Portuguese language"
9 March 2021
Portuguese-owned Farfetch UK Ltd has begun retailing its high-end fashions on the Chinese shopping website Tmall, the Fashion United website reports. The website quotes a written statement issued by Farfetch as saying the outlet in the Tmall Luxury Pavilion began last week offering 779 million Chinese over 3,500 brands of luxuries, 90 percent of them … Continue reading "Portuguese-owned retailer begins selling fashions on Tmall"
9 March 2021
Timorese Health Minister Odete Maria Belo is hoping for more Chinese support for people that work in healthcare in her country, the Chinese Embassy in Dili says. The embassy issued a written statement quoting Ms Belo as saying so when she, Chinese Ambassador to Timor-Leste Xiao Jianguo and Chinese Commercial Counsellor in Dili, Geng Xiewei, … Continue reading "Timor-Leste and China discuss greater help with healthcare"
8 March 2021
Gree Electric Appliances Inc. of China has won the contract to heat, ventilate and air-condition the renovated Feira da Madrugada shopping centre in the southeastern Brazilian city of São Paulo, the ABI website reports. Gree will begin by supplying three sets of centrifugal chillers, according to a report posted on the Chinese website on Wednesday. … Continue reading "Gree to keep the air in São Paulo mall fresh and comfortable"
8 March 2021
The first Chinese-funded international school in Angola opens tomorrow in Luanda, the China Africa Bridge Cross-Border Trade Service Platform said on Wednesday. The Fenda da Tundavala school and vocational training institute is now enrolling pupils of Chinese, Angolan or other nationalities, according to an announcement posted on the Chinese website. The complex also contains the … Continue reading "First Chinese-funded international school in Angola opening"
8 March 2021
Portuguese livestock farmer Monte do Pasto, which is owned by CESL Asia of Macao, dispatched last month the first shipment to Macao of its True Born premium brand of beef and mutton, which is worth 100,000 euros (about US$120,400), and is preparing to send two more, Ponto Final reports. The Macao newspaper quotes Monte do … Continue reading "Monte do Pasto begins shipping its True Born beef to Macao"
5 March 2021
A prominent Chinese academic, Wang Chengan, believes China and lusophone countries are a good match for trading purposes, the People’s Daily reports. The Chinese Communist Party newspaper says Mr Chengan is the leading authority in his field at the University of International Business and Economics Centre for Studies on China and Portuguese-speaking Countries, and that … Continue reading "China, lusophone countries considered well matched for trade"
5 March 2021
A load of Brazilian pulp is due to arrive in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing tomorrow, becoming the first to be delivered by ship and train through the New Western Land-Sea Corridor, China National Radio (CNR) reports. The Chinese state-run radio station says the 2,650 tonnes of pulp, carried in containers, left the southern … Continue reading "Brazilian pulp pioneers southern Chinese logistical route"
5 March 2021
Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee’s Standing Committee member Hoi Kin Hong has called for lawyers in Macao and mainland China to work together to support economic engagement by China and the Portuguese-speaking world, The Observer website reports. The Chinese website quotes Mr Hoi, who is in the real estate business in Macao, … Continue reading "Collaboration by Macao, mainland Chinese lawyers urged"
4 March 2021
On March 3, Deputy Secretary-General of the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (Macao), Mr Ding Tian, welcomed to the Permanent Secretariat of Forum Macao a delegation from the Administrative Committee of the China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization Demonstration Zone for Local Economic and Trade Cooperation. The visiting … Continue reading "Representatives from the Administrative Committee of the China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization Demonstration Zone for Local Economic and Trade Cooperation visit Permanent Secretariat of Forum Macao"
4 March 2021
The Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) says it is taking applications by Macao businesses wishing to exhibit at the fourth China International Import Expo, to be held in Shanghai from October 5 to 10. IPIM issued on Tuesday a written statement saying enterprises that do business with the Portuguese-speaking world, either by selling … Continue reading "IPIM mustering Macao exhibitors for expo in Shanghai"
4 March 2021
An adviser of the Fintech Association of Hong Kong, Oriol Caudevilla, thinks Macao should exploit its ties to the Portuguese-speaking world to get into the business of green finance. Mr Caudevilla, who sits on the committees of the association that deal with blockchain business, digital banking and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, says so … Continue reading "Macao urged to use foreign ties to get into green finance"
4 March 2021
The Lusophone Markets Business Association is considering setting up an outpost in the Nansha district of the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou to help companies doing business between China and the Portuguese-speaking world to attract investors and advertise, the Macau Daily News reports. The newspaper says some members of the association have called for the … Continue reading "Springboard for international business mooted for Nansha"
3 March 2021
Two more batches of ingredients for making the vaccine against COVID-19 marketed by AstraZeneca plc of Britain and Sweden have arrived in Brazil, the Brazilian government says. The foreign and health ministries jointly announced in writing that the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation will use the ingredients, which arrived last Saturday, to make about 12 million doses … Continue reading "Chinese ingredients for COVID-19 vaccine arrive in Brazil"
3 March 2021
Aethel Mining Ltd has begun exporting to China high-density iron ore from its mine in Torre de Moncorvo in northeastern Portugal, the first order being for 50,000 tonnes, Lusa reports, citing Aethel President Ricardo Santos Silva. The report quotes Mr Santos Silva as saying last week that the deal struck by Aethel and its Chinese … Continue reading "Portuguese mine starts exports of iron ore to China"
3 March 2021
Official data indicate that the value of merchandise exports by Macao to the Portuguese-speaking world grew to 160,000 patacas (about US$20,000) in January, over five times the value a year earlier. Figures published by the Macao Statistics and Census Service last week show that all merchandise exports in January were domestic exports, as opposed to … Continue reading "Macao January exports to Portuguese-speaking world quintuple"
3 March 2021
The head of the Macao Polytechnic Institute International Portuguese Training Centre, Joaquim Ramos de Carvalho, believes the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will facilitate academic cooperation by China and the Portuguese-speaking world, the institute says. The Macao Polytechnic Institute issued a written statement quoting Mr Ramos de Carvalho as saying so at … Continue reading "Closer academic ties between China, lusophone world forecast"
3 March 2021
The China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration says it has formed a committee of lusophone experts to set and grade tests for translators and interpreters of Chinese into Portuguese and vice-versa, which will be introduced in June. The administration issued last week a written statement saying six of the 12 highly qualified translators and interpreters that … Continue reading "Lusophone committee to set translation, interpretation tests"
1 March 2021
Mozambique has taken delivery of its first 200,000 doses of a vaccine against COVID-19 supplied by Sinopharm Group Co. Ltd of China, the Chinese Embassy in Maputo says. In accepting the gift of the vaccine, Mozambican Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosário said it reflected the strength of Sino-Mozambican friendship, according to a written statement … Continue reading "First doses of Chinese COVID-19 vaccine reach Mozambique"
1 March 2021
An aerial survey of Angola intended to reveal the potential value its untapped mineral resources has been completed, Lusa reports, citing Angolan Geological Institute President Canga Xiaquivuila. Angola has invested US$259.4 million in the Chinese-led geological survey of the country that includes the aerial survey, the Portuguese news agency quotes Mr Xiaquivuila as saying on … Continue reading "Chinese-led aerial search for Angolan minerals completed"
