China’s technological development makes people’s lives more convenient. If you have an account on [the social media app] WeChat, you can buy something to eat and book train tickets. The first time I heard about WeChat in Brazil, I saw it as a copy of WhatsApp. But when I arrived here, I found it’s not a copy because the features of WeChat are different; you can do more things.

All the achievements [in the past five years] are due to the leadership of the CPC as well as the uniqueness of China’s system. The banking system is different in my country. In Brazil, we have private banks and state banks, but they never talk to each other. There’s no such thing as a service like the WeChat wallet, where it’s not important whether I know the other person, I can just pay them.