РУАЭСТ (RUAEST)
The Chinese Language as a Factor of Economic Development and Russian-Chinese Cooperation Promotion in the Krasnoyarsk Territory
The article describes the results of a Roundtable discussion on the problem of how to organize the effective interaction between Krasnoyarsk business and human resources of Siberian Federal University to promote Russian-Chinese collaboration. Consequently, the experts give consideration to the language, culture, information, and technical barriers of international cooperation that exist between the representatives of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Asia-Pacific Region. The organizers reveal the results of a marketing survey about the importance the Chinese Language for people in the 21st century. Moreover, they show the ratio of supply and demand in the translation service market of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The educators discuss what competencies a modern translator from/into Chinese must have and how to prepare well-qualified interpreters in a 4-year term. In conclusion, the participants managed to identify the main objectives for the future: to organize intercultural consulting activities for business structures of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and China, suggest a 1-year business Chinese course for citizens, improve the curriculum and develop contract cooperation between institutional and business structures of Krasnoyarsk.