For Jorge Hidalgo, China has become his second home and a place where he has made his way through the worlds of diplomacy, business and academia to strengthen the country’s ties with his native Ecuador.
Destiny
It has been two decades since Hidalgo first set foot on Chinese soil. “I think it was destiny,” he said. It all started thanks to a scholarship from the Andean University, where he had obtained his master’s degree in international relations with a specialization in economics and finance, to go study Chinese economics at Beijing’s prestigious Renmin University of China. Since then, his path has been marked by a myriad of experiences in the