中国已承诺采取“切实的措施”，帮助正苦苦设法避免主权债务危机的葡萄牙。预计其措施将包括购买葡萄牙国债。
周日，在中国国家主席胡锦涛为期两天的国事访问结束之时，中国和葡萄牙官员还签署了大量双边商业协议，其中包括在快速发展的葡语经济体——巴西和安哥拉——成立合资企业。
胡锦涛表示，中国愿意采取切实的措施，帮助葡萄牙应对全球金融危机。
中国外交部副部长傅莹表示，中国承诺投资欧洲债券，并愿意帮助葡萄牙。
“我们的朋友有困难，我们当然会担心，”她对记者表示。
由于投资者担心，葡萄牙可能会像希腊那样，被迫从欧盟(EU)和国际货币基金组织(IMF)寻求财务支持，该国借债成本受到的压力与日俱增。
上周四，葡萄牙基准10年期国债收益率升至近6.8%，创下了欧元时代的历史新高。金融市场担心，根据欧盟相关提议，未来任何纾困都将要求债券持有人分担更重的包袱。
葡萄牙经济部长若泽•维埃拉•达席尔瓦(José Vieira da Silva)对中国对购买葡萄牙国债的兴趣表示欢迎。他表示，这将有助于分散目前高度集中于欧洲的投资者基础。
中国购买欧洲国债被视为一种手段，一方面分散中国目前以美国国债为主的主权债务投资组合，另一方面争取政治支持，抵御美国要求人民币加快升值的压力。
葡萄牙一位高级官员表示，在2月份的一次葡萄牙国债发行中，包括中国机构投资者在内的亚洲投资者购买了5%的份额，在3月份，又购买了19.5%。
之前，中国购买过西班牙国债，在希腊政府恢复国债发行后，也进行过类似的购买。
胡锦涛表示，中国和葡萄牙已达成共识，力求在5年内将双边贸易额翻一番，同时平衡目前严重向中国倾斜的商业流动。
在达成的众多协议中，葡萄牙最大上市银行千禧银行(Millennium BCP)与中国工商银行(ICBC)签署了一项旨在加强合作的协议。
最近获得了澳门在岸经营执照的千禧银行表示，该协议重点面向中国、葡萄牙、以及葡萄牙前殖民地安哥拉和莫桑比克之间不断发展的商业往来。
葡萄牙电信(Portugal Telecom)与中国的华为(Huawei Technologies)签署了一项协议，联合开发光纤及其它电信服务。
葡萄牙电力公司(Energias de Portugal)首席执行官安东尼奥•麦西亚(António Mexia)表示，中国电力国际发展有限公司(China Power International)已表示，有兴趣收购该公司逾2%的股份。
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China has promised “concrete measures” to help Portugal, which is struggling to avert a sovereign debt crisis, with support that is expected to include purchases of Portuguese government debt.
At the end of a two-day state visit by President Hu Jintao, Chinese and Portuguese officials also signed on Sunday a number of bilateral commercial deals, including joint ventures in the fast-growing Portuguese-speaking economies of Brazil and Angola.
“We are ready to take concrete measures to help Portugal overcome the global financial crisis,” Mr Hu said.
Fu Ying, China’s deputy foreign minister, said China was committed to investing in European bonds and was ready to help Portugal.
“We are definitely concerned if our friends are in difficulties,” she told journalists.
Portugal’s borrowing costs have come under increasing pressure as investors fear it might be forced to follow Greece in seeking financial support from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
The yield on Portugal’s benchmark 10-year government bonds reached a euro-era high of almost 6.8 per cent on Thursday amid financial market concern over EU proposals to make bondholders share more of the burden of any future bail-out.
José Vieira da Silva, Portugal’s economy minister, welcomed China’s interest in purchasing Portuguese sovereign debt, saying it would help diversify an investor base highly concentrated in Europe.
Chinese purchases of European government bonds are seen as a means of diversifying the country’s sovereign debt portfolio, which is heavily focused on the US, and of winning political support against US pressure for China to allow faster appreciation of its currency.
A senior Lisbon official said Asian investors, including Chinese institutions, purchased 5 per cent of a Portuguese debt issue in February and 19.5 per cent of another in March.
China has previously bought Spanish government bonds and has made a similar offer to buy Greek government debt when Athens resumes issuing.
Mr Hu said China and Portugal had agreed to work towards doubling their bilateral trade within five years and balancing commercial flows, which are currently highly favourable to China.
Among the deals made, Millennium BCP, Portugal’s biggest listed bank, signed an agreement to increase co-operation with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.
BCP, which recently acquired an onshore licence to operate in Macao, a former Portuguese territory near Hong Kong, said the accord focused on developing business between China, Portugal, Angola and Mozambique, former Portuguese colonies.
Portugal Telecom signed an agreement with China’s Huawei Technologies for the joint development of fibre-optic and other telecoms services.
António Mexia, chief of Energias de Portugal, said China Power International had expressed interest in buying more than 2 per cent of the company.
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