Mainland China plans to send a medical team to São Tomé and Príncipe next month, Macauhub reports. The website quotes Ministry of Health official Yong Feng as saying a reconnaissance of hospitals and other healthcare facilities would identify the needs of the mission but dentistry, cardiology and general surgery were among the priorities.

Protectionism and sluggish demand means trade will remain “complicated” this year according to the Chinese Ministry of Commerce.

China’s economy will grow by 6.5 percent this year according to the World Bank in its Global Economic Prospects report.

Cape Verde signed a financing deal with Mainland China this week that would see Beijing provide US$15 million to help implement the second phase of an e-governance project.

November’s exports from Portugal reached 5.5 billion (US$4.9 billion), last year’s peak, according to data released by Statistics Portugal. Data regarding December has not been released yet.

Angola’s biggest export market in the second quarter of last year was Mainland China, Portuguese news agency Lusa reports.

The Mainland economy grew about 6.7 percent last year, according to the chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission.

Nine companies from Mainland China will tour São Tomé and Príncipe to identify investments in infrastructure projects, the Macauhub website reports.

Fosun International Holdings will increase its holding in Banco Comercial Português, Portugal’s biggest private bank, from 16.7 percent to 30 percent, Agence France-Presse reports.

Revenue from Mainland China’s domestic tourism industry rose 14 percent in year-on-year terms to 3.9 trillion yuan (US$563.6 billion) last year, Xinhua reports.

The University of Macau will launch a Master of Arts in Second Language Acquisition in the 2017-18 academic year, the university announced this week.

A proposed US$20-billion fund for Brazilian infrastructure projects could make its first investment in March, the Reuters news agency reports.