Brazil, the largest market economy in Latin America, the world’s fifth-most populous country and the world’s tenth-largest economy, will be present at the 13th China International Forum for Investment and Trade (CIFIT).

China and Brazil have maintained close exchanges and cooperation between their legislatures, a senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said Thursday.

The economic relations between Brazil and China are important and should be improved through increased integration in production and an increase in technological cooperation, a Brazilian economist said.

Brazil is the largest developing country in the Western Hemisphere, and China is the largest developing country in the world.

All but invisible in Latin America a decade ago, China now is building cars in Uruguay, donating a soccer stadium to Costa Rica and lending $10 billion to Brazil's biggest oil company.

Former Chinese ambassador to Brazil, Chen Duqing, told Xinhua Monday that the two sides have huge potential to expand trade.

The Sino-Brazilian strategic partnership signed nearly two decades ago has, in recent years, begun to produce some impressive results.

The World Expo 2010 organizer yesterday handed over a 2,000-square-meter space to Brazil for its pavilion.

Estimates put chocolate growth at 10.6 percent between 2008 and 2009. Molded bars will by far be the top performer, valued at almost $1.5 billion - nearly three times as much as the nearest category of chocolate straight lines.

On November 5, 2008, the Chinese government released a policy paper on Latin America and the Caribbean, as it had previously done so for Europe in 2003 and for Africa in 2006.

The Chinese government launched its first ever policy paper on Latin America and the Caribbean region.

China has become Brazil's most-important trading partner, disrupting a relationship between the United States and the Latin country that stretches back to the 1930s.

The Brazilian Central Bank announced it had reached an initial understanding with China for the gradual elimination of the US dollar in bilateral trade operations which in 2009 are estimated to reach 40 billion US dollars.

Located in a strong geographical presence, enjoying good revenue performance and experiencing steady innovation in the region, Anglo-Dutch Unilever has emerged as the overall leader in the latest Asia-Pacific Food and Beverage Business Vitality Index

Barry Callebaut says with sales volumes up 2.6% to 895,391 tons for the nine-month period under review, growth has resumed after reaching a low in November 2008.