Mainland cities are interested establishing twinning arrangements with Angolan cities, Angop reports. Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries Vice-president Lin Yi made the comments while meeting the province of Luanda’s Deputy Governor José Manuel Cerqueira, the Angolan news agency says.

Confucius Institute Day on September 24 is being celebrated by the branch of the Confucius Institute at the University of Cape Verde in the Cape Verdean capital, Praia, A Nação reports.

The business environment for foreign firms investing in the mainland is improving, CCTV reports.

Young entrepreneurs in Macao hope to do business with Portugal in fields including wine and real estate, Jornal Tribuna de Macau reports.

Brazil’s services sector was 0.7 percent bigger in July than the month before, in another sign that the country’s economic recession is easing, Reuters reports, citing Brazilian statistics agency IBGE.

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) expects the Mozambican economy to grow by 3.6 percent this year and to grow even faster in the following few years, Macauhub reports.

Academics say the annual rate of growth in the mainland economy could be 6.5 percent or 6.6 percent in the next five years, if the country persists with structural reform, Xinhua reports.

The estimated cost of a proposed railway that the mainland would help build to connect Brazil and Peru is US$60 billion, Reuters reports.

The Chinese company China Railway International Group will supply equipment for the workshops of the three publicly-owned Angolan railway companies in a deal worth US$46.1 million, Lusa reports.

China’s non-financial outbound direct investment (ODI) grew to US$15.31 billion (118.78 billion MOP) last month, 13.4 percent more than a year earlier, Xinhua reports.

A delegation from the Mozambican province of Inhambane visited Fujian province this week, seeking investments in infrastructure, Notícias reports.

Angolan Minister of Higher Education Adão do Nascimento believes the opening of a branch of China’s Confucius Institute at the Universidade Agostinho Neto in Luanda will strengthen his country’s cultural relations with the mainland, Angolan news agency Angop reports.