Brazilian President Lula has completed a state visit to China, signing bilateral cooperation documents in trade and investment, digital economy, technological innovation, information and communication, poverty reduction, quarantine, aerospace, and other fields with Pakistan. Lula expressed his satisfaction with the outcome of his visit, declaring that cooperation with China is "of strategic significance" to Brazil. In a speech at the inauguration ceremony of Dilma Rousseff as the president of the New Development Bank, Lula called on the BRICS countries to use their own currencies for settlement and criticised the hegemony of the US dollar.