During the 4th Portugal-China Gala, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said that he hopes to welcome China’s President Xi Jinping in 2018 on a State visit to Portugal, and added that he believes Portuguese-Chinese relations “are perhaps the best they’ve ever been”.
The Gala was preceded by a conference, with discussion about Portugal’s position regarding China’s One Belt, One Road strategy, in which companies such as Hainan Airlines, Tin Min Jade, China Three Gorges, AICEP Global Parques and the Administration of the Ports of Sines and the Algarve all took part.
The Entrepreneurial Merit awards were made at the end of the evening, with awards given to Fosun, Caima¬ Indústria de Celulose, Beijing Capital Airlines, the Association of Portuguese-Chinese Traders and Industrialists and to the Chinese Embassy in Lisbon.