International Trade Fair between China and Brazil continuing in online format

Beginning on August 30 and running until September 16, the International Trade Fair between China and Brazil is currently underway, making use of virtual tools to connect buyers and sellers from both sides of the globe.
The event is an initiative from the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries – Macao (Forum Macao). It aims to deepen the economic and commercial exchange between China, Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking countries, as well strengthening cooperation in the field of trade in services between them.
This year, the event’s central theme is “Opening the future with digitization and promoting development through services” — a theme not coincidental given how the Covid-19 pandemic abruptly changed most of the ways that traders relate and do business around the world.
The fair features an online exhibition which includes an online forum focused on cooperation in areas such as technology transactions, commerce services, smart cities, intelligent medical treatment and cultural trade. The forum favors the construction of an international platform for trade in services, increasing bilateral economic and trade cooperation between China and Brazil.
On September 3, the Deputy Secretary-General of the Forum Macao, Ding Tian, was invited to participate in the Trade Services Forum, delivering a speech in which he outlined the solid cooperation of trade in services between China and Brazil and how it plays an exemplary role in fostering cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking countries (PLPs). Ding also mentioned that Macau strengthens its various roles by establishing an “RMB Settlement Center for Portuguese-speaking Countries,” a “Business Services Center for Small and Medium Enterprises of China and the PLPs” and a “Convention and Exhibition Center for the Economic and Commercial Cooperation between China and the PLPs.” He indicated that these areas can and will benefit from more professional and diversified services — namely, in finance, business, interpretation, legal consultancy, tourism, conferences, exhibitions, and others.
He also stressed that the Forum Macao, as a multilateral mechanism for economic and trade cooperation between China and the PLPs, will continue to explore new areas and models to bolster Sino-Lusophone cooperation.