GDUFS Students Win First Place in the National Interpretation Contest of the Guangdong-Hainan District

On 25^th April, the 4^th National Interpretation Contest in the Guangdong-Hainan District concluded in Zhuhai, the southernmost city of Guangdong province. Over 50 competitors from 16 universities of Guangdong and Hainan Provinces took part in this Contest. Three competitors from the School of Interpreting and Translation Studies represented GDUFS. YANG Bo won the first place and another two students HE Ting and WU Xinyue were qualified to next stage of the context.

Competitors from GDUFS

The contest took the form of a knockout, and was divided into two parts. In the English-Chinese part, the English content surrounded the Sino-America deal on climate change and compared it with the Copenhagen Conference. The audiotape and its interpretation lasted for 3 minutes. In this round, our school students won praise from the judges for their sound background knowledge and adept interpretation.

In the Chinese-English part, the topic concerned the China’s Economic Monetization. The frequent usage of jargon and numbers required competitors to have a command of interpretation and resilience. Our school students confronted the unfamiliar topic, intensive information and frequent numbers, but they dealt with the problem resourcefully and made a deep impression on the judges. After the judges’ thorough evaluation, YANG Bo won the first place.

The judges and competitors take photos

The Translators Association of China and China Translation and Publishing Corporation jointly organized this contest. Professor LIN Wei from Jinan University and Dr.XIE Guixia from Sun Yat-sen University were the judges.