He began his professional career in 1999 and he is the Spanish correspondent with most experience in China. He currently holds the post within the correspondent team of Vocento regional in Asia and collaborates with the newspaper El País, Eldiario.es and El Confidencial. He also works for the following international media: South China Morning Post, La Repubblica, Asian Geographic and Al Jazeera. In all this time he has covered the main events in Asia, from the tsunami of the Indian Ocean, reaching the Saffron Revolution in Myanmar orthe Olympic Games of Beijing, as well as publishing many pieces and interviewing the main Asian leaders. He signs his own photographs and has organised several exhibitions, in group and individual. He is author of the book 'Asia, burdel del mundo' (Elea, 2004). Zigor Aldama currently lives in the city of Shanghai even though his field of action is spread around the Asian continent.