When you think of Latin America, what comes to your mind?

More than 20 hours of flight time, more than 10 hours of time difference, different languages ​​and historical cultures... Latin America and China used to be distant and mysterious places in each other's eyes.

However, with the continuous deepening of the "Belt and Road" initiative, China-Latin America economic and trade exchanges with infrastructure construction as an important content have grown like a rocket, and personnel, cultural and tourism exchanges have been frequent.

China has become Latin America's second largest trading partner, and Latin America has become the second largest destination for Chinese overseas investment after Asia.

Steven from Argentina is a teacher in the Spanish Department of the School of Foreign Languages, Changzhou University, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province.

In addition to being a teacher, Steven also holds a bunch of titles: Deputy Director of the Latin American Studies Center of Changzhou University, Researcher of the China-Mexico Veracruz Research Center, member of the International Relations Committee of the APEC Mexico Research Center, Buenos Aires The external consultant of the China-Arab States Research Center of the Department of Sociology of the University, the winner of the "May 1st" Labor Honor Medal in Jiangsu Province, and the honorary citizen of Changzhou... Steven has settled his home in China. During these years in China, he has become a Latin American. A messenger of exchanges between China and China, and has become a "beautiful" in many areas of Latin America-China relations.

In Steven's view, Latin America and China have many economic complementarities, and economic complementarity requires cultural synergy.

"Cross-cultural exchange is a relationship of 1+1>2." Steven said that over the years, he is happiest that more and more Latin Americans have come to China. He hopes that he can contribute to Latin America-China exchanges. A "boat", carrying more Latin Americans to see China's development and understand Chinese culture.

"I believe they will have their own judgments after communicating with the enthusiastic Chinese people," he said.

Responsible editor: [Li Ji]