The Translation Practice Report Of Bidding Documents Under The Guidance Of Text Type Theory

In recent years,in the context of The Belt and Road Initiative,if Chinese enterprises want to go abroad continually to undertake more international engineering projects and thereby develop the international market,they should provide training to a large number of outstanding international bidding practitioners,which requires these talents to have a certain degree of professional literacy and foreign language proficiency.The merits and demerits of translation skills are particularly prominent and significant in the economic cooperation and exchanges with foreign countries,and even a tiny error can result in the failure of the whole bidding activity.Therefore,in the translation of international bidding documents,the importance of the accuracy and credibility is self-evident.Which means,on the one hand,the translator should possess the professional quality and knowledge reserve of the corresponding project fields,and master the accurate translation of the relevant terms.On the other hand,the translator should also have a high linguistic ability to translate different types of text,especially the translation of special tables with strong informativeness,such as data tables and past performance tables involved in the tender documents,should reflect the translator’s accurate and refined language conversion ability and flexible logical thinking ability.The material of this translation practice is Initial Selection for Procurement of Design and Build of Kigali Centralized Sewerage System.Due to the bidding document is a typical informative text,the author will explore the translation strategy of the bidding document from the aspects of information accuracy and logicality,guided by Text Typology Theory,which is helpful for translators to adopt corresponding translation methods to defeat in detail on the basis of determining the type of text,so as to improve the quality of the translator’s language service and to further increase the success rate of Chinese enterprises in undertaking global bidding projects.