Translators share tips on how to convey meaning

Experts debated how to upgrade the quality of translation at the three-day Translation and Communication of Chinese Culture Forum at Beijing Language and Culture University that closed recently.

Some 400 professionals in the translation and cultural communications business, working in languages from English to Arabic, met to discuss problems and find ways to make this critical work better in the country.

"If you compare our economic power to its cultural influence, it's very disproportionate," says Wang Gangyi, the secretary-in-general at the Translators Association of China. "If we look at influential overseas publications on China after 2000, the majority of them don't come from the country."