(Expansion of the PSC Markets) IPIM organizes entrepreneurs from Macau to participate in the largest supermarket fair in South America and facilitates more than 140 Business Matching sessions

IPIM is organizing a delegation of Macau entrepreneurs to explore collaboration opportunities in Brazil

The Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) organized a delegation of 18 Macao entrepreneurs from the food and beverage sector to participate in the “APAS SHOW 2024”, in São Paulo, Brazil, the largest trade fair, from May 11 to 17 for the supermarket industry in South America, to explore new sources of Brazilian food and drinks. 140 business matching sessions were facilitated during the event.

During the trip, IPIM organized an investment environment exchange activity between Macao and Hengqin, where more than 70 representatives from local Brazilian economic and trade institutions, chambers of commerce and companies were invited. This was the first time that Macao-Hengqin’s investment benefits were promoted in Brazil. And the delegation also visited local trade promotion agencies and chambers of commerce to further explore cooperation opportunities for enterprises in mainland China, Brazil and Macau.

Make good use of the “PSCs Food Product Distribution Center” to carry out business matching between Macau and Brazilian companies

The “APAS SHOW 2024” is organized by the São Paulo Supermarket Association (Associação Paulista de Supermercados) and is one of the largest trade fairs for the supermarket industry in the region, with approximately 850 exhibitors from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Portugal, Spain and others to land. countries and regions. During the event, a number of business matching sessions and negotiations took place between the delegation members and the trade fair organizers and business representatives from sectors such as meat, propolis and nuts. This is a platform for Macau enterprises to effectively identify potential suppliers and introduce more products from the Portuguese-speaking countries, including Brazil, and to accelerate the construction of the “Portuguese-speaking Food Distribution Center for the Countries”.

Some representatives of this Macau delegation reported that they had established cooperation through this event, expecting to import Brazilian meat, coffee and nut products to Macau and even to the mainland Chinese market. Some delegates considered this professional major event as a good opportunity to get to know first-hand the Brazilian food and consumer market

The first activity to promote the investment climate in Macao-Hengqin, Brazil attracted more than seventy representatives of Brazilian companies

To promote the new pattern of synergistic development between Macao and Hengqin among Brazilian businessmen and highlight the exhibition and investment environment under the “Macao Platform + International Resources + Hengqin Space”, IPIM held a Macao-Hengqin promotional exchange for the investment climate. , in which Consul General Yu Peng of the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in São Paulo, IPIM Executive Director Sam Lei and representative of the São Paulo office of the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (ApexBrasil) Gustavo Sperandio Fernandes delivered speeches . Participants at the event included General Manager of China (Brazil) Investment Development and Trade Center Pan Faming, International Trade Advisor of the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (Sebrae) Márcio Guerra de Carvalho, and President of the Brazilian Association or Export Processing Zones Helson Braga. Cavalcante.

Consul General Yu Peng of the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in São Paulo stated in his speech that over the past half century, since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Brazil, political relations and mutual trust have deepened, with personnel exchanges coming closer and closer and numerous highlights in economic and trade cooperation. Macau has a long history of exchanges with Brazil. The city not only occupies an important position in China’s high-level opening up to the outside world, but also serves as a crucial bridge for China’s communication and cooperation with Portuguese-speaking countries. The closed customs operation of the Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone in Hengqin will significantly intensify Macao’s cooperation with the mainland in production and supply chain, providing new opportunities for the global society, including Brazil, to share the benefits of Chinese efforts. modernization. It is hoped that Macau and Brazil, with their complementary advantages and close cooperation, will achieve more mutually beneficial and win-win results, and make greater contributions to the next “Golden Fifty Years” of China-Brazil relations.

According to Sam Lei, Executive Director of IPIM, the “Service Platform for Commercial and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-Speaking Countries” is one of the most important steps in Macau’s positioning strategy. Last month, the 6^e The Ministerial Conference of the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-Speaking Countries (Macau) was successfully held in Macau, which not only clarified the key areas and cooperation methods of economic and trade cooperation between China and the PSCs, but also strengthened cooperation between China and Brazil in economic and trade development. He sincerely invited Brazilian investors and entrepreneurs to take advantage of the “China-PSC Business Compass” service and other facilitating measures of IPIM to learn about the advantages of Macau and Hengqin, find partners and promote investment projects implement.

The exchange session attracted more than seventy representatives of Brazil’s business community, from fields such as retail and wholesale, export, food and beverage, e-commerce and cultural tourism and MICE, to explore cooperation opportunities with Macau entrepreneurs on the ground. According to the representatives of Brazilian companies, they were the first to know about the synergistic development between Macau and Hengqin and believed that it would have great potential for regional development. In the future, they plan to conduct field inspections in the Macao-Hengqin business environment, participate in conferences and exhibitions in Macao, and use MICE events and the Macao China-PSCs platform to explore the potential of Mainland China’s consumer market for their explore products.

Strengthening ties with Brazilian economic and trade institutions and chambers of commerce on the occasion of the 1950s^e anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Brazil

In addition, the delegation visited the Zhuhai Gree Electric Enterprise office in São Paulo, Brazilian trade promotion agencies such as the China Trade Center, ApexBrasil and the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (Sebrae) to learn about local breakthrough investment trends and business activities. advantages. During the trip, the delegation also met with Nelson Hervey Costa, a representative of ApexBrasil’s Southeast Regional Office, Gustavo Sperandio Fernandes, and the General Director of the Brazilian Support Service for Micro and Small Businesses (Sebrae) Nelson Hervey Costa to to exchange views on the service advantages of Macao’s China. -PSC platform and opportunities in Macau-Hengqin cooperation. According to some delegates, this year is the fiftieth^e anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Brazil, which expressed the great significance of this trip, which allowed them to meet with Brazilian trade organizations, chambers of commerce and enterprises that have rich resources and a wide service network, bringing the delegation with the correspondent became connected product sources in Brazil. The Macau delegation was looking forward to participating in the exhibition with their own products in an effort to open the huge Brazilian market with exhibitions as a starting point

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