Academy of Translating Anhui

Jul 3, 2025, International Office，5-minute read

On the morning of 29 June 2025, the inaugural ceremony for the AXHU-based ‘Academy of Translating Anhui’ as one of the Anhui Translators Association-affiliated branches celebrated at the Multimedia Hall of AXHU Research Building, which will bear the hallmarks of the geniuses engaged long with the Anhui-wide translation cause of communicating Chinese cultural icons and the inherited stories to the world’s people who want to know what’s happened and will be happening across the China.

At 9:30 a.m., on behalf of the AXHU administration, the executive vice dean of the School of International Education CHENG Yi announced this historical event to begin, officially, where convened a huge group of VIP sitting leaderships or fellow members involved positively in the relevant areas, including the vice president of the CICG Academy of Translation and Interpretation, also Executive Vice Secretary-General of the Translators Association of China (TAC), XING Yutang; Supervisory Commissioner of the Anhui Provincial Education Commission at AXHU/secretary of the CPC AXHU committee DI Jianwei; the senior Associate Editor-in-Chief with the People’s Daily (in English version) CHEN Lidan; the president of the Anhui Translators Association XU Ming; the consultant at the Anhui Translators Association, the inaugural dean of the Academy of Translating Anhui, FAN Dongsheng, also taking office as the dean of AXHU School of International Education; the vice president of the Hongshan College of Nanjing University of Finance and Economics CHENG Hongyun; as well as the chief staffers at the AXHU International Exchange and Cooperation Office/the School of International Education, or some faculty members or researchers of translation & interpretation from the other schools and departments.   

Initially, the Secretary Di congratulated the founding of the academic institute based on  AXHU campus, moreover, stressing the significance of University-Industry collaboration to develop in an effective way along which the fellow members can boost the Chinese culture of impact and its inherited elements regionally across the Anhui province.

So the AXHU administration actions will always support such full-fledged evolution, via providing with the tailored policies, well-operated systems, talent-centered services, and advanced tools and technologies, for itself as one of the most impactful, innovative, tranformative organization either in Anhui province or nationally.  

And “this is another scholarly measure to help improve ‘Translating Anhui’ practices to a higher level and then to maximize the platform’s functional engagement to make our  most meaningful culture added to the humanities worldwide, by rendering certain indigenous texts recognized theoretically in multiple forms,” Director Xu urged.

Also, Prof. Fan Dongsheng interpreted the Academy’s positioning at the very beginning and its future development trends for all the career attendees, and put forth: “The powerhouse should place itself into the Anhui-featured cultural contexts to have a detailed journey, enjoying an unusual work experience of excellence, covering the high-end academic research of Translation & Interpretation, the new solutions for intercultural communications, and more, while especially cultivating the next-generation talents in this domain.”

After that, along with Prof. Xu and Prof. Fan, Di unveiled the Academy’s Shield covered in bright red silk, warmly regaining another period of applause to congratulate from all the members.  

—‘A Moment at AXHU’ group picture of theirs was historically taken to record to remember, forever.

Additionally, the translatology-themed new research reports come to hold the floor at 10:00 am, such as CHEN Lidan’s “To tell local stories—literally, figuratively—representing the panorama of China from the masses’ understanding of embracing worldwide visions on the innovative grounds,” which focuses itself on the further discussion on the approaches of translating for effective communicating between cultures-and of diluting the differences of sino-foreign narratives according to some certain standardized corpus activated from their signifiers and signifieds in the real world.     

Citing some empirical cases at a glance of ‘Translating Anhui,’ for which there are still “a large chunk of challenges we are facing” to deepen the relevant translation strategies, while rendering the original Chinese texts into the English version(s) such as in culturally functional equivalence, Prof. Fan discussed majorly.  

Other faculty members like GUAN Yu in the School of Foreign Languages of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (GSCASS), WANG Ruru at the School of Foreign Languages of the Anhui Science and Technology University, LI Mingzhu at the AXHU School of Foreign Studies, ZHOU Qian at the Anhui Sanlian University, respectively, shared with a raft of research topics, including the corpus construction for Anhui-based folk culture terminologies, the pathways of telling ‘Anhui stories’ to serve a desired narrative, such as holding the specialized competition intended to disseminate the indigenous culture,  coining/wording for these unique iconic forms acceptably across the world, the Anhui-wide public signs reproducing, and much more, extra-linguistically, geographically and historically.  

As a significant result of 2025, to grow the impacts of Anhui-wide feature culture and humanistic realities, working with the front-line incumbents or distinguished professionals at the Anhui Translators Association-like research organizations across the China, which have and will be fully supportive of the deeper explorations and practices since the founding of the Academy, there, the AXHU-based translators’ largest efforts full of huge passions will therefore continue for the national academic cause’s greatness and achievements in the areas of cross-cultural and -linguistic communications, globally, for the long haul.