The Brazilian social commerce platform Facily has entered into a partnership with Cainiao, the logistics arm of the Chinese giant Alibaba, which expands the possibilities for withdrawing purchases from customers. With the agreement, the company now has 1,000 Cainiao Smart Lockers.

With more than four million residents, the most populous region of São Paulo will also have a BYD Brazil dealership. Östen Group has been appointed as the brand’s new partner in the country and will open, in the first half of 2023, a unit in the traditional neighbourhood of Tatuapé.

Lotti Nolika, governor of Huambo Province, in central Angola, made a speech on the 15th of December during a working visit with the Chinese ambassador to Angola, Gong Tao, at a training center donated by the Chinese in Huambo Province. She said Chinese private investments are welcome in central Angola to boost regional socio-economic development.

The electric SUVs Seres 5 EVR and Seres 3 from Chinese car brand Seres will land in Brazil in February 2023. In parallel, the brand will also bring two electric light commercial vehicles to Brazil: the EC31 truck and the EC35 van – both manufactured by Chinese DFSK Motor, the partner of Seres. They will be commercialized from the first quarter of 2023.

Last week, the People’s Republic of China sent Liu Yuxi, the diplomat responsible for cooperation with Africa, for meetings with the governments of African countries.

On the 15th of December, the Fujian General Chamber of Commerce in Angola delivered Christmas gifts to children in one of the largest orphanages in Luanda, the capital of Angola. The donation also attracted the participation of Portuguese and local companies.

On the 14th of December, the Xinhua News Agency’s Rio de Janeiro branch held the Xinhua News Agency’s Silk Road Belt information promotion event in São Paulo. At the event, the Rio de Janeiro branch signed news cooperation agreements with Other Words and the Brazil China Agency.

On the 13th of December, bilateral relations between Angola and China were under analysis at a meeting between the chairman of the 3rd Commission of the National Assembly on Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Angolan Communities Abroad, Alcides Sakala, and the Chinese ambassador in Angola, Gong Tao.

The 1st Brazil-China Health Forum (FBCS), an initiative of Puyi Global, with support from Hospital Sírio-Libanês, was launched on the 14th of December at 9am. The event was held both offline and online, with participants coming from China and from all regions of Brazil.

Mota-Engil announced on the 12th of December that it had signed a mining contract in Ivory Coast in the amount of US$600 million (about 569 million euros). Mota-Engil’s shareholder is China Communications Construction Company Limited.

China imported 52,464 million tons of soybeans from Brazil from January to November 2022. According to data from the Foreign Trade Secretariat (Secex), a department of the Ministry of Economy, the volume is 13% lower than the 60,476 million tonnes in 2021. China is the biggest buyer of Brazilian oilseed.

In a meeting held on the 12th of December at the Legislative Assembly of Bahia (Alba), the state deputy Angelo Almeida received the Consul General of China in Rio de Janeiro, Tian Min, to discuss actions aimed at strengthening Bahia-China cooperation.