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In the Common Sense Advisory “The Top LSPs in Asia Pacific (2019)” (2019 Asia Pacific Best Language Service Provider) survey, TalkingChina ranked 30th in the Asia Pacific region, a jump from 1 in 2018! TalkingChina for the fourth time. Prior to this, TalkingChina was awarded the 30th Best Language Service Provider in Asia in 2014, the 28 Best Language Service Providers in Asia in 2016, and the Best Language Service Provider in Asia and the Pacific in 2018. 31 strong. TalkingChina has been advancing from China to Asia, from Asia to Asia Pacific, and has continued to move toward a larger stage.
What kind of organization is Common Sense Advisory (CSA)? It is the authoritative investigative agency for the global language services industry. CSA's annual ranking of language service providers is an important yardstick for companies in the industry to measure their own and customer measurement language service providers. Previously, the top 30 rankings in Asia were changed to the top 35 in the Asia Pacific region in 2018. The translation companies that entered the top 35 in the Asia-Pacific region of the Asia-Pacific region include: Pactera, CSOFT, and Yuyu. Home business.
According to the "China Language Service Industry Development Plan", language service capabilities are becoming one of the core competitiveness of China's economic, cultural and technological development. The language service industry is the basic supporting industry for China's social and economic development in the era of globalization. The development trend of globalization, industrialization and intelligence is obvious. Not only does the industry itself generate great value, but also drives the development of upstream and downstream industries. Constantly innovative technology and broad market demand are the main drivers of the future development of the language services industry.
According to the survey report, from 2016 to 2018, the overall demand for the Chinese language service market continued to grow. In the context of the country's “going out” and “Belt and Road” strategies, the language service industry has gained more market opportunities. As of June 2018, there were 320,874 domestic language service and related business enterprises, including 9562 language service enterprises. In 2016, the language service industry development report had 72,495 similar enterprises and 7,369 language service enterprises, an increase of 29.88%.
The survey also showed that in the language service market of more than 50 billion US dollars, the percentage of the Asian market has reached double digits, and the main contribution comes from China. Mergers and acquisitions in the global language services market are changing the market structure.
Today, as machine translation is growing and maturing, translation needs are increasing. In the daily service work of TalkingChina, we were pleasantly surprised to find several trends: First, the demand from the foreign translation of foreign companies has gradually changed to the needs of more and more Chinese companies, such as Chinese translation or English translation. The types of target languages ??have increased with the progress of globalization, and many small language needs that were rarely encountered before have been on the rise. At the same time, the types of translation needs are changing, from traditional translation and interpretation needs to more and more derivative non-standardized language requirements, such as the direct writing of English or target language; marking, classification, data cleaning Work-assisted work with machine translation; service work for corpus and terminology; optimization work during website internationalization. The language service business still has a long way to go.
This is the fourth time that TalkingChina has participated in the CSA survey. In the increasingly competitive translation market, it can continuously enter the top 35 in the Asia-Pacific and advance to a ranking. It is worthy of being able to be proud of itself. In the past 17 years, TalkingChina can “Integrity, professionalism, problem solving, and creation of value” The unremitting practice of the creed has been recognized and respected by customers.
Of course, we are mixed in the results of this evaluation. I am happy that TalkingChina has made some small achievements in the language service industry for 17 years and received good social benefits. The worry is that the Chinese language service industry still stays. In a state of scattered sand, TalkingChina can translate such a medium-sized company to be at the forefront of China. The entire industry needs to have stronger core technologies and business models to integrate high-quality resources, and work together to regulate the entire language service industry to be healthier. Long-term development.
