Recently, President Xi Jinping replied to letters from friendly personages from all walks of life in Brazil, encouraging them to continuously contribute to the China-Brazil friendship.

Xi Jinping noted that he is glad to see that the China-Brazil friendship has been passed on from generation to generation. Over the past 50 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, China and Brazil have marched forward hand in hand and shared weal and woe, becoming good friends spanning mountains and oceans. China is ready to work with Brazil to continuously enrich the friendship between the two countries with the imperatives of the new era, make China-Brazil relations a good example of solidarity, coordination, common development and mutual benefit between major developing countries, and make greater contributions to the cause of peace and progress of mankind. He said Brazilian friends are welcome to visit China more often to experience the myriad sights of Chinese modernization. He expressed the hope that people from all walks of life in the two countries will play a positive role in promoting the continuous development of China-Brazil relations and making the China-Brazil friendship flow unceasingly like the Yangtze River and the Amazon River.

Recently, Enrique Teixeira, former Deputy Mayor of Campinas, São Paulo State of Brazil, and more than 100 friendly personages from the Brazil-China Friendship Association, University of São Paulo and São Paulo State University in Brazil, including faculty and students, and the Copacabana Fort Orchestra in Rio de Janeiro wrote letters to President Xi Jinping, respectively, thanking the Chinese government, enterprises and universities for their contributions to Brazil-China friendly exchanges and the improvement of local people's livelihood.