The goal of the trip is to “promote the revival of relations with the country’s most important trading partner since 2009,” the federal government confirmed.
According to the Metropoles portal, in 2022 China imported more than $89.7 billion of Brazilian products, particularly soybeans and minerals, and exported nearly $60.7 billion to the domestic market.
The volume traded, $150.4 billion, has grown 21-fold since Lula first visited the Asian giant in 2004.
The trip also comes the week Brazil resumes exporting beef to the Asian nation after a month’s suspension.
Sales of the product were suspended after a case of the so-called mad cow disease (a brain disease in adult cattle that can be transmitted to humans through contaminated meat) on February 22 at a farm in the municipality of Marabá, in the northern state of Pará.
Other important areas of the visit plan are tourism between the two countries and investment, according to the schedule.
In addition, at least 20 bilateral agreements are expected to be signed, including the agreement to build CBERS-6, the sixth in a series of satellites being built in partnership between Brazil and China.
The differential of the new model is a technology that allows monitoring of biomes such as the Amazon jungle even in cloudy conditions.
Metropoles assures that the founder of the Labor Party Lula will meet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, Prime Minister Li Qiang and the head of the National People’s Congress Zhao Leji on March 28 in Beijing.
The following day is dedicated to a business event sponsored by the Sino-Brazilian High-Level Commission and the Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade and Services and attended by more than 240 Brazilian businessmen.
His last official engagement in the country will be in Shanghai on the 30th, where Lula will visit the headquarters of the New Development Bank (NDD), an entity set up by the BRICS (group made up of Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa). Promotion of projects in developing countries.
All journalistic media unanimously point out that with Lula’s trip the German government is trying to rebuild relations with its most important business partner, which were damaged by the anti-Chinese discourse of the former government of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro.
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