The tunnel boring machine designated by the number “1207” that will excavate the tunnels for the São Paulo Line 2 extension has successfully passed the customer acceptance process, the equipment manufacturer, China Railway Engineering Equipment Group (CREG) informed on the 20th of January. The tunneling machine was created and finished by the company itself and will be sent to Brazil in the coming weeks.

The Mayor of Curitiba, Rafael Greca, received the AT Global team, a representative of the Chinese company Guangzhou EHang Intelligent Technology in Brazil, and opened the doors of the city for the company to start operations and carry out the feasibility studies for the eVTOL take-offs.

On the 20th of January, REINA, the National Network of Business Incubators and Accelerators, hosted the Chinese New Year Fair organized by the Confucius Institute at the University of São Tomé and Príncipe (USTP) with the sponsorship of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China.

Brazilian Agriculture Minister Carlos Fávaro said on the 18th of January that China has rehabilitated three Brazilian meat processing plants to export animal protein to the Chinese market.

The Brazilian President Lula da Silva said on the 18th of January that he will go to China in March. The intention of a trip to China was anticipated by Chancellor Mauro Vieira during the work of the transitional cabinet.

On the 15th of January, the prize-giving ceremony for the Photography Contest in Portugal and the installation ceremony of the photographic station “Sino-Portuguese Eye” were successfully held in Lisbon. The Photographic Station “Sino-Portuguese Eye” is an initiative of the China News Service Pho2tos agency and Media International de Puxin.

The meeting between the Angolan President, João Lourenço, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of China, Qin Gang, on the 13th of January, focused on two axes: the solid boost in cooperation between the two countries and the increase in Chinese investment in Angola.

In order to implement the wind farms Pedra de Amolar I, Pedra de Amolar II and Paraíso Farol II, in Rio Grande do Norte, SPIC Brasil, a subsidiary of the State Power Investment Corporation of China, closed a financing of R$ 282.2 million with Banco do Nordeste (BNB). Together, the new plants will have 105 MW of installed capacity. The news was disclosed in the Valor Econômico newspaper on the 17th of January.

On the 16th of January, the Centro Social Chinês de São Paulo, led by the director of the social center, Andre Ye, together with the Associação de Caridade China Brasil, represented by President Sun Zongmin and his deputy Max Zheng, and the Associação de Caridade da Comunidade Chinesa do Brasil, represented by CEO Tony Wang, visited the neighborhood of Grajaú, in the south of the São Paulo city, to carry out the delivery of basic food baskets.

A delegation from the Chinese state-owned company Hunan Construction Investment Group Co (HNCEG), accompanied by the Representative of Guinea-Bissau to the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-Speaking Countries (Forum Macao), Mr. Abdú Jaquité, has been in Bissau since the 6th of January in 2023.

The Brazilian Association of Export Processing Zones (Abrazpe) and the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade of Xiamen (CCPIT Xiamen), which is a port city located on the southeast coast of China (Fujian province) with 4.29 million inhabitants, signed an economic and technological cooperation agreement in São Paulo on the 13rd of January. The event – China (Xiamen)-Brazil Economic and Trade Conference – was held in a hybrid format (face-to-face with online participation).

WIN Solar, a distributor of solar equipment belonging to the All Nations Group, closed a contract with the Chinese manufacturer of photovoltaic solar modules, ZNShine. The first order totals around 50 megawatts (MW) in generators, with the proposal to supply the stock to meet the demands of distributed generation projects in homes and businesses in Brazil.