Governor João Doria of the Brazilian state São Paulo will lead a party of São Paulo officials and businesspeople on a visit to China between August 3 and 10, Xinhua reports.
The Chinese government-run news agency quotes Mr Doria as telling a news conference that the purpose of the visit is to drum up Sino-Brazilian trade and look for new opportunities for Sino-Brazilian cooperation.
Mr Doria said his party would visit the cities of Beijing, Xi’an, and Shanghai, and attend the opening of a São Paulo government office in Shanghai, the first representative office of the state government outside Brazil.
He expressed hope that Chinese investors will put money into 21 projects to be undertaken by public-private-partnerships to improve transport by land, air and sea in São Paulo, and said his government was looking in particular for a partner in a project to build a US$2 billion intercity railway.
Sino-Brazilian cooperation has great potential, and there should be more Sino-Brazilian trade, cultural exchanges and exchanges of tourists, Mr Doria said.
São Paulo buys about 38 percent of what China exports to Brazil, while China buys 12.5 percent of what São Paulo exports around the world, Xinhua says, without giving values for either.
