The Current Developments of Chinese Translation Industry & Market

Translation service market in China is still growing continuously , the number of registered companies has reached more than three thousand, while there are so many companies undertake translation tasks in the name of the consulting firms or , or printing club. According to incomplete statistics, the number of such companies or firms has now reached more than one hundred in Beijing. For now, the translation strengthen of Wuhan city is rather strong, while the number of real registered translation company is less than ten. Actually, the employment future of translation domain is not that bright. How about the future of translation and interpreting market? How should we treat it? And now, let’s analyze it!

Chinese translation sector is continuously growing normalized in recent two years and National Ministry of Personnel in our country has carried out China Accreditation Test for Translators and Interpreters since 2003 in the same time , the number of people attending the exam is gradually growing. One insider says, compared with European and American countries the translation of Chinese market is relatively in chaos: the quality of translation cannot be guaranteed, the degree of professional division refinement is not high, and the market price does not have a standard criteria . At present there is no specific government department to supervise the translation undertakings, so a completely unified policy is not fully in place, while in western countries, a specific government department is in charge of translation industry and also gives suitable policy guidance.

At present, the much deficiency of translation service in our country has become a problem in translation industry progress. A sampling survey shows that there are about 60 thousand people as professional translators on duty while nearly 50 thousand people choosing translation as work. In China's domestic market, there are five kinds of translation talents, mainly divided into science and technology interpretation, conference interpretation, court interpretation, business interpretation, document translation and liaison interpreter, this market is increasingly rising. Due to our lack of professional translator in domestic translator market and mainly concentrate in a relatively developed city and government departments, the talent gap is rather big, providing a better job prospects.