Brazil and China. Relations and exchange outlook: the Minas Gerais Northern case

Brasil e China. Relações e perspectivas de intercâmbio: o caso do norte de Minas Gerais

Abstract

Brazil and China spend through a lot of trajectories in the last decades and China, because of the high growth rates, got significant progress on its development. Brazil, on the other hand, shows a modest economic growth. Despite the discrepancies, trade and investment relations have expanded, establishing complementarity between these two economies. This article analyzes the case of Minas Gerais, especially its northern region, trying to describe and understand how the Chinese expansion has affected the prospects for investment in the region and how the change of the Chinese model (seated in the creation of infrastructure and export to a mix, with greater emphasis on domestic consumption) could threaten the planned mineral investments, while it can open other possibilities, especially in the agricultural sector.