An analyst for financial information company Fitch Solutions, Tettey Addy, says the Angolan economy will continue to benefit from Chinese financing for at least the next five years, Lusa says.

Chinese Ambassador to São Tomé e Príncipe Wang Wei has described work on expanding the airport there and building housing for civil servants as “moving along”, STP-Press reports.

A study has concluded that China will be the buyer of 70 percent of the soybeans exported by Brazil 10 years from now, Xinhua reports.

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi says the International Monetary Fund is helping his country to reform its economy and to increase transparency and accountability, Reuters reports.

The Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) says it arranged a three-day meeting in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang which brought together businesspeople from the surrounding province of Liaoning to hear their counterparts from the Portuguese-speaking Countries promote the products of the lusophone world.

Official data indicate that of the 6,498 foreigners given permission to live in Portugal because they invest in the country, 3,963 are Chinese, Reuters reports.

British consulting firm Focus Economics forecasts that Mozambican gross domestic product will grow by 3.3 percent this year and 3.5 percent next year, Lusa reports.

The Brazilian competition authority has given unconditional permission for Chinese state-owned electricity company China Three Gorges Corp. to take control of Portuguese utility Energias de Portugal SA (EDP), Lusa reports.

The Honorary Consulate of Guiné-Bissau in Macao has opened on the 13th floor of the Centre Golden Dragon to facilitate Sino-Guiné-Bissau co-operation and exchanges, the Macao Daily News reports.

Brazilian coffee producers want a bigger share of the Chinese market, Xinhua reports.

Macao painter Ieong Tai Meng has founded the Association of Artists of China, Macao and the Portuguese-speaking Countries to facilitate exchanges in the fields of the arts and culture, Plataforma Macao reports.

tourism The Portuguese tourism promotion agency, Turismo de Portugal, has got together with airlines and tour operators to consider how to replace the direct air service between Portugal and China, which will be suspended starting October, Jornal Económico reports.