With Many Firsts in Chinese Translating and Interpreting - You Need Chin Communications on Your Team
Award-winning Mandarin Interpreter and Chinese Translator, Charles Qin, established Chin Communications in 1992 which is now regarded as Australia's leading Chinese specialist translation company. He has established a reputation as one of the region's leading Chinese translator/interpreters whose 'clients' include President Hu Jintao, George W Bush and former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jiang Zemin.
Charles has been at Olympic and Commonwealth Games, World Expo, APEC, G20 and for FTA negotiations. He has translated papers for Australia-China Free Trade Conferences and for major events and visits between the countries. He was a key interpreter when Jiang Zemin was the first Chinese president to visit Australia in 1999 and the first interpreter to provide simultaneous interpreting in Parliament House for the inaugural visit of President Hu Jintao in 2003.
Charles's company Chin Communications was selected by the Government to develop the new brand for Australia for the Chinese market - Australia Unlimited. Charles was with Trade Minister Crean at the launch in May 2010.
Charles is the first and only Australian Mandarin Interpreter to be admitted to AIIC (the international conference interpreters' elite organisation) and achieved accreditation at NAATI Level 5 inAustralia (the highest possible level).
In 2006 Charles was appointed Visiting Professor by the Tianjin Institute of Foreign Studies, a key translating and interpreting studies university in China, and in 2007 as a Visiting Professor at Kunming University of Science and Technology.
Charles Qin and his team at Chin Communications - some other highlights:
winner of a Highly Commended Award at the inaugural AUSIT Excellence Awards for Interpreters and Translators in November 2005;
First Australian Interpreter ever to provide Simultaneous Interpreting in Parliament House Canberra for visit of President Hu Jintao, 2003
Interpreting (and provision of team of interpreters) for visit by Vice President Xi Jinping, June 2010
Developed Chinese version of new brand ''Australia Unlimited" and supporting materials, 2010
APEC 2007 simultaneous interpreting for Leaders' Summit
Commonwealth Games and Olympic Games - interpreting for dignitaries at business events
United Nations international meetings around the world
Translation of China Australia Business 2009 - official publication of the Australia China Business Council
Translation and design of the Federal Government’s Olympics book for Beijing 2008
Simultaneous interpreting for visit of Premier Wen Jiabao to Australia, as well as providing a team of interpreters for the China-Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji, 2006
Simultaneous interpreting for G20 Resources meetings in Melbourne 2006
Translation of Terrestrial Carbon series of policy papers for Copenhagen 2009
China-Australia Economic and Trade Cooperation Forums
China-Australia Business Conferences - the two biggest China events ever held in Australia, 2005 and November 2009
30th Anniversary celebrations for Victoria-Jiangsu Sister-State as Interpreter for Governor, Premier and all official proceedings, December 2009, and coordination of interpreting team
Chief interpreter for the Melbourne-TianjinSisterCity 30th 25th adn 20th Anniversary celebrations, including supply of a team of over 20 interpreters
Provision of interpreting teams for Business Partner Cities, Melbourne 2007;
Translation of the new ADS (Approved Destination Status) Application Package launched by Minister for Tourism Fran Bailey in June 2005 and second edition, May 2006 and updated 2007 and 2008;
Translation of DFAT Economic Analytical Unit's Unlocking China's Services Sector, 2006 book (128 pages);
Translation of a series of mining handbooks for the Leading Practice; Sustainable Development Program for the Australian Government, 2007;
Translation of the Victorian Government's 2005 China Strategy launched by then Treasurer John Brumby;
Translation and typesetting The Best of Coal MIning Book, October 2008
Translation of FTA Agreement books - 3 volumes, DFAT 2006
Regular ministerial visits to China including Bo'Ao conference;
interpreting speeches by Prime Minister Howard and then Opposition Leader Crean in Australia's Parliament for the visit by President Hu Jintao;
Arranging interpreters for conferences around the world on topics ranging from financial services to automotive, agriculture to ICT;
compering the Melbourne Festival Melbourne Concert Hall performance of the Nanjing Traditional Instruments Orchestra for the 50th anniversary of the People's Republic of China;
interpreting for State and Federal Ministers and leaders, past and present;
frequent senior business and government delegations from China and Taiwan;
co-author of the Lonely Planet Mandarin Phrase Book and World Food Hong Kong; collaborating on Chinese Language components of all major Chinese destination Lonely Planet Guidebooks;
translator of 2002 publication: The Changing Role of e-Business in China (IMA/AT Kearney book).
Chin Communications translates into Chinese and into English and with its team of specialists built up over a decade, can address almost any need. Using the latest technology and under the guidance of one of Australia's leading practitioners, we guarantee you'll never have a bad translation.
Contact us today for advice, quotes, news and useful information about China and Chinese translation: info@chincommunications.com.au.
