To further enhance the quality of the education of Master of Translation and Interpreting, promote effective connection between graduate education and career development, and better leverage the advantages of university-enterprise cooperation to provide students with practical platforms, on April 17th, our school organized 84 graduate students of Master of Translation and Interpreting enrolled in 2022 to conduct understanding practice at both Global Tone Communication Technology (Shaanxi) Co., Ltd. and the Xi’an branch of Beijing Yaxincheng Medical InfoTech Co., Ltd. Liu Jianbo, Vice Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Foreign Languages, Professor Ji Jianfen, Director of the MTI Education Center, and Associate Professor Chen Hanliang, in charge of the MTI Practice Base, along with representatives from the teaching staff including Professor Tian Jin and Associate Professor Zhang Min, and Zhao Mingxing, the counselor for managing graduate students, accompanied the students.
Group photo of understanding practice of MTI students from SFL, Northwest University
First, they came at Global Tone Communication Technology (Shaanxi) Co., Ltd. As a globally leading high-tech enterprise in big data and industrial applications, the company possesses advanced system platforms and management experience in fields such as machine translation, cross-lingual big data, industrial chain technology, and scientific research data analysis.
Students participated in a lecture by Global Tone Communication Technology (Shaanxi) Co., Ltd.
Zhang Xincheng, Deputy General Manager of Global Tone Communication Technology Co., Ltd, and Chen Dong, LS Business Unit Deputy Director, warmly welcomed the internship team from the school. The company’s relevant leaders briefly introduced the development history, current status, and future prospects of translation industry, as well as the main categories of translation services and job demands. They also provided an overview of the company’s situation, and answered questions regarding students’ job-seeking needs and the company’s business content. At the company’s exhibition hall, the staff demonstrated the latest research achievements in fields including speech recognition, image recognition, semantic search, knowledge graph, big data analysis, and big data visualization within the “Yijian · Platform of Big Data Visualization Analysis”.
Group photo of the teaching staff and representatives from Global Tone Communication Technology Co., Ltd.
Later, Liu Jianbo and Ji Jianfen led the team to visit the Xi’an branch of Beijing Yaxincheng Medical InfoTech Co., Ltd. As a leading medical translation service provider in China, it focuses on translation services in the life sciences field, covering a wide range of areas including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biologics, animal health, and vaccines.
Its General Manager Yang Ruifeng and Gu Minru, General Manager of the Xi’an branch, warmly welcomed the internship team. Starting from the company’s business needs and combining with the work content of the pharmaceutical department, medical device department, and comprehensive department, as well as the translation field, they provided detailed introductions about the company to the internship team. Based on this, the leaders led the students to visit the translation, project, and engineering departments, allowing them to experience the office environment firsthand, gain insights into the workflow, and learn about the company culture.
The photo of presentation of Beijing Yaxincheng Medical InfoTech Co., Ltd
In order to deepen the integration of industry and education, strengthen cooperation between the university and enterprises, and promote high-quality employment for graduates, the school’s person in charge of the employment and teaching staff conducted in-depth exchanges with the two units regarding expanding employment channels and establishing internship platforms. The school carefully listened to and absorbed valuable suggestions from the companies regarding talent cultivation, gained a deeper understanding of the recruitment needs of language service enterprises. In the follow-up professional internship mobilization and campus recruitment, it will strengthen the connection between supply and demand, and selectively provide excellent talents to the enterprises, achieving resonance between the university and enterprises.
On-site negotiations for university-enterprise cooperation
With strong support from the school, the MTI Education Center organized students to participate in understanding practice at language service enterprises, aiming to further help students clarify job requirements, define development goals, understand career prospects, and enrich their job choices. This activity has broadened students’ horizons and deepened their understanding of translation and language service positions. In the future, the school will establish more university-enterprise cooperation platforms to provide students with efficient and precise services for internships and employment.
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