A Translation Report On Development Program Of Qingdao West Coast New Area

Qingdao West Coast New Area was approved by the State Council as the ninth national new area, which inspires Qingdao into a rapid economic development stage by bringing it closer to the rest of the world. As a result, the Development Program of Qingdao West Coast New Area came into being. This program, due to its detailed description of the development of new guidelines and the concrete measures in the acceleration of the new area construction, promotes a steady development of the area. Besides, it provides a platform for the world to know this new area better, to learn more of its dynamic development and to see further into its brilliant future. At present, the introduction in English to the development situation of Qingdao is far from enough to meet the need of its foreign publicity. A study on the English translation of this kind of text is not only helpful in the transition of information about the New Area, but also a reflection of the cultural literacy, the education and the overall quality of the New Area. What's more, translation plays the crucial role in Qingdao's Communication with the whole world.The source text is one entitled Development Program of Qingdao West Coast New Area from the website of Qingdao Development and Reform Commission of the West Coast New Area in November 2014. In the course of translation, some strategies for program text translation are used and developed on the basis of the unification of theory and practice. At initial stage, with the help of abundant informative text both in Chinese and English, the lexical and syntactical rules are summarized. The background information of the text, the reason for the choice of the text and the main contents of the text are explained respectively; in the preparation stage, with the help of the text typology theory and text analysis theory, the features of the source language and the procedures of the project, special characters of this program text are concluded. The intra-textual and extra-textual factors in the translation are also brought in. As for the case study, the text typology theory is introduced and such translation strategies or skills as annotation, amplification, omission, word formation, transformation of active-passive voice are applied appropriately. Lastly, the translator's qualities of professionalism are reaffirmed, the strong points of this translation are concluded, the existing problems are collected and the feasible suggestions for the future are proposed.