The Belt and Road 2024 Trade and Investment Forum will be attended by the Portuguese-Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCILC), with a delegation of companies led by Carmen Wu, Vice President of CCILC, representing Quinta da Marmeleira.

Organized by the China Chamber of International Commerce (CCOIC), the 2024 edition is themed “High Quality Development for a Shared Sustainable Future”, and aims to encourage economic integration and joint development, to give new impetus to the promotion of high quality business cooperation within the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

Continuing the work started at the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF), the Forum was successfully held twice in 2018 and 2021, attesting to the joint efforts of the business communities to improve the international cooperation plan within the framework of the BRI.

In January 2024, Marmeleira´s Assistant Executive Carmen Wu became the Chinese representative of CE-CPLP, under the vice-president for China. The Macao Forum celebrates this year its 20th anniversary.

Chinese Ambassador to Portugal Zhao Bentang (pictured above, center) met with the CPLP Business Confederation (CE-CPLP) president, Nelma Fernandes (second from left), and the organization´s new delegate for China and Macau, Carmen Wu (second from right), in March.

Ambassador Zhao encouraged Wu to actively use her role at CE-CPLP to further strengthen the exchanges between China and Portuguese speaking countries, to facilitate the friendly exchanges and close cooperation between Chinese and lusophone enterprises and individuals, as well as to promote the active participation of enterprises in the Belt and Road initiative, enhancing mutual understanding between the peoples of various countries, and to foster the exchange of knowledge between civilizations.

In her first visit to Lisbon in her new role, Wu also met with Tito Mba Ada, Ambassador of Equatorial Guinea to Portugal, and Giuliano Ferres Nascimento, Permanent Representative of Brazil to the CPLP, who said that companies and institutions from various Portuguese-speaking countries would start to organize their visit to Macau to participate in the Ministerial Meeting of the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and the Portuguese-speaking Countries (Macao Forum).

In 2023, as the first CE-CPLP representative in China, the founder of Quinta da Marmeleira, Wu Zhiwei, actively promoted the exchange of enterprises Portuguese-speaking countries to visit the Greater Bay Area, promoted deepening cooperation between Chinese and Portuguese-speaking entities in culture, tourism and Chinese medicine.

He also promoted the establishment of the Macau and Portugal-speaking Countries Commercial Banking Alliance, and the establishement a financial service platform. Wu also attached great importance to the history of Portugal and Macao, and used his influence to actively promote visa-free entries for Portuguese in China.