The cheers and bustling in a crowded subway carriage in Rio de Janeiro reminded me of a similar occasion during a recent trip to a city in northeast China, nearly 20,000 kilometers from Brazil.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is on a four-nation visit to Latin America, which has benefited from its growing relationship with China.
Cheng Hong, wife of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, talks with a worker while visiting a social factory providing vocational training for the poor in Brasilia, capital of Brazil, on May 19, 2015.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday called on China and Brazil to map out a new plan for industrial investment cooperation.
Latin America experts in the US applauded Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's current visit to four Latin American countries as significant in boosting bilateral trade and investment ties.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's Latin America tour marks another step toward "a new type of relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean," says a UN official.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit to Latin America, highly anticipated for a raft of business deals, is expected to put China's cooperation with the region on firm footing.
Brazil's anti-doping laboratory has won back accreditation, and the lab's coordinator is looking to tap China's anti-doping experience during the Beijing Olympic for the Rio 2016 Games.
From kung fu to acupuncture to Chinese cars and construction, young Brazilians have a lot of observations about China.
Brazil should expand its exports of processed food to diversify the mix of goods sold to China, said Jose Vicente Lessa, consul general of Brazil in Guangzhou, Guangdong province.
Premier and his wife treated to homemade food during a visit to family dairy farm
Ireland greeted Premier Li Keqiang as if he were on a formal visit rather than just making a stopover, with Enda Kenny, the taoiseach, or prime minister, giving him a hearty welcome on Sunday.