Business gathering in Praia

Some 400 entrepreneurs are gathering in Cape Verde from June 16 to 18 to participate in a meeting for economic and trade co-operation between China and the Portuguese-speaking countries (PSC), as reported by LUSA.
The meeting – titled ‘Exploring Opportunities for Pragmatic Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries’ – is being organised by Cape Verde TradeInvest, an investment agency, and will be held in the country’s capital of Praia.
Aimed at fostering new forms of co-operation, investment, and partnership in trade, the meeting integrates the Plan of Action signed in 2003 upon the occasion of the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and the Portuguese-speaking Countries, agreed between trade promotion and Investment organisms such as the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) and Chambers of Commerce of those countries, Agência Cabo-Verdiana de Notícias reported.
More than one third of the participants this year will come from China, totalling some 150 Chinese businesspeople.
In addition to attendance of representatives from Portuguese-speaking countries and China, other countries to be represented include the U.S., Spain, Morocco, Senegal, and Ghana.