April 9 – Shanghai Party Secretary Chen Jining met with Jose Pedro Aguiar-Branco, speaker of the Portuguese parliament.

Chen said Shanghai will continue to strengthen its friendship city ties with Porto and expand cooperation with Portugal more broadly. He called for increased investment and trade, joint efforts to advance digital and green transformation, and closer exchanges in areas such as public services, urban governance, and grassroots legislation, and stronger people-to-people exchanges, especially among young people.

Aguiar-Branco praised Shanghai as a dynamic and highly internationalized metropolis, saying Portugal-China economic and trade cooperation and people-to-people exchanges are well reflected in the city and have yielded fruitful results. He expressed hope for deeper cooperation in economy, trade, energy, tourism, and sustainable development to better benefit the people of both countries.