On the noon of 17 July, 2014, Chinese President XI Jinping and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff witnessed the signing of over 30 bilateral cooperation agreements in trade, finance, culture, technology, education, national defense and personnel exchanges at the presidential residence, including the establishment of Confucius Institute between BJTU and the State University of Campinas in Brazil. XU Lin, Director General of the Confucius Institute Headquarters (known as Hanban) signed the agreement with José Tadeu Jorge, President of the State University of Campinas on the establishment of the Confucius Institute at the University of Campinas, which marked the third Confucius Institute of BJTU after Belgium and the United States of America.

After the signing ceremony, Mr. CAO Guoyong, Chairman of the University Council signed the Cooperation Agreement with José Tadeu Jorge. Both institutions are committed to start cooperation on scientific research, student mobility, graduate student scholarship and the development of Portuguese language program.