SIS Students Win Prizes in 7th ACIC Central Region Competition
On May 26th, 2018, the 7th All China Interpreting Contest (ACIC) Central Region Competition was held at Zhengzhou University of Aeronautics. Five students from the School of International Studies (SIS) achieved good results. Wu Yubing and Lu Ziqian won the third prizes, while Zhang Xinyi, Li Junda and Z'hang Mingxia were awarded the honorable mentions.
Opening ceremony
The regional competition was hosted by the Translators Association of China and co-organized by Zhengzhou University of Aeronautics and Henan Huayi Language Service and Educational Consultation Co., Ltd. It was held in the first lecture hall of the library at Zhengzhou University of Aeronautics, where 121 competitors from 49 colleges and universities in 5 provinces—Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Henan—treated the audience to a feast of interpreting. The panel of expert judges included Feng Yongchen, the former director of the Henan Foreign Affairs Office and president of the Translators Association of Henan Province, and the senior translation reviewer Yang Weibin, the deputy director of the Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the People’s Government of Henan Province.
The competition was divided into the knockout session and the qualifying session. In the knockout, competitors were required to interpret from English to Chinese. They were split into two groups that were graded by three judges respectively, and each group would turn out 20 winners. A total of 40 competitors moved on to the qualifying session of Chinese-English interpreting. In the qualifying round, each audio recording lasted less than two minutes. The competitors were required to interpret right after each recording. Then the judges graded the content of their interpreting, the use of interpreting skills and their professionalism respectively.
SIS graduate students Lu Ziqian, Zhang Mingxia and Zhang Xinyi, and the undergraduate students Li Junda and Wu Yubing stood out in the provincial contest and entered the regional one. After eight hours of intense competition, Wu Yubing and Lu Ziqian won the third prizes of the central region competition, and Zhang Xinyi, Li Junda and Zhang Mingxia received the honorable mentions.
SIS competitors and supervisor after the contest
The 7th ACIC Central Region Competition achieved a great success and provided a rare opportunity for experience exchanges among the colleges and universities in the central region. The competition was a good chance to strengthen regional communication and to select outstanding interpreters, and it also serves as a test for foreign language teaching in colleges and universities in the new era under the guide of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Translated by Zhao Zitong
Proofread by Zhou Zhanhong, Zhang Jiamin
