Chalco (China Aluminium Corporation) and the Rio Tinto Group will jointly acquire a majority stake in CBA (Companhia Brasileira de Alumínio), part of the Votorantim Group, for R$4.7 billion, ensuring low-carbon production amid rising metal prices.

In China, the head of the ApexBrasil Office, Victor Queiroz, was received by the president of the China Chamber of Commerce for Import & Export of Medicines & Health Products (CCCMHPIE)

On the morning of 31 January, the Government of the State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, through the State Secretariat for Rural Development and Family Agriculture (Sedraf), presented representatives of the Chinese company Jiangsu World Agricultural Machinery Co. with the land that could host its agricultural equipment factory in Mossoró.

The Brazilian film Manas was screened at the opening ceremony of the Brazilian film festival ‘Amazonia: a forest on screen’ at the Palace Cinema (CWTC BJ) in Beijing on the evening of 30 January 2026.

Dragons, colourful lions, music and the smell of traditional food took over Praça da Liberdade, in downtown São Paulo, on 31 January. The capital's most traditional Asian cultural neighbourhood has already entered into the spirit of Chinese New Year 2026, although the official date of the event is celebrated on 17 February.

On 29 January, the second tunnel boring machine for Line 2-Green departed from the port of Taicang, China, aboard the ship Chipol Taihu, bound for Brazil. Considered the largest machine in metro construction in the country, the new ‘Tatuzão’ is 133 metres long, 11.67 metres in diameter and weighs 2,600 tonnes.

On 29 January 2026, the Chinese Ambassador to Portugal, Yang Yirui, met with the President of AICEP, Madalena Oliveira e Silva, and the two exchanged in-depth views on promoting economic and trade co-operation between China and Portugal. 

World university sport begins 2026 with its eyes on Asia. Between 29 and 31 January, the city of Changchun, China, will host the first meeting of the Executive Committee of the International University Sports Federation (FISU) of the year.

On 27 January 2026, Brasilia hosted the Brazil-China Seminar: Research, Development, Innovation and Agricultural Mechanisation, an event organised by Brazil's Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) in partnership with the Chinese Embassy in Brazil.

Exports of goods from Portuguese-speaking countries to Macao reached a new all-time high in 2025, according to official data released on 30 January.

Miguel Santos is the new coach of the CF Jiangsu women's team in China. After recently leaving SK Dynamo České Budějovice in the Czech Republic, the Minho-born coach, who won the national championship with SC Braga in 2018/2019, as well as the Portuguese Cup (2019/2020) and Super Cup (2018/2019), is now taking charge of an international project in women's football.

Scientific co-operation between Brazil and China has entered a new chapter with the start of a technological exchange aimed at donkey breeding and milk production.