From April 12 to 15, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was on a state visit to China. On April 14, the Joint Communiqué between the Federative Republic of Brazil and the People’ s Republic of China on the Deepening of their Global Strategic Partnership incorporates BINGO radio telescope project participated by Yangzhou University into China and Brazil national strategic plan.

   Article 33 of the Communiqué mentions the parties supported the development of the BINGO Radio Telescope, currently under construction in Brazil, aimed at research on dark matter.

Being one of the Pathfinder projects of the international “Square Kilometer Array” (SKA), BINGO is a major international cooperation project in the field of radio astronomy and cosmology. It is also the only project that focuses on the nature of dark energy. The project plans to build a large single-aperture radio telescope dedicated to observing the neutral hydrogen gas in the universe at the edge of the Amazon forest in Paraiba, Brazil. Besides, it is supported by the key program of the National Natural Science Foundation of Brazil, the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland and China. As the core unit of BINGO project in China, Yangzhou University is mainly responsible for BINGO theoretical templates and foreground removal method, and carries out relevant scientific researches. The project was initiated in July 2021 and firstly reaped the rewards in August 2022. The successful publication of the seven core papers in the international first-rate journal Astronomy and Astrophysics emerges as a milestone for BINGO project. In October 2022, Yangzhou University attended the signing ceremony, which lays a foundation for the early construction of BINGO large single-aperture radio telescope in Brazil.

The link of Joint Communiqué between the Federative Republic of Brazil and the People’s Republic of China on the Deepening of their Global Strategic Partnership is as follows: www.gov.cn/yaowen/2023-04/14/content_5751581.htm