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SISU volunteers enhance Shanghai’s multilingual capabilities at CIIE


10 November 2020 | By YU Min and ZHOU Zixuan | Copyedited by LU Yuyang, WANG Bo, YANG Yichen and GU Yiqing

  • SISU volunteers to CIIE

    A total of 196 SISU volunteers head off to CIIE.

  • SISU volunteers at CIIE

    A total of 196 SISU volunteers, known as “Small Leaves”, provide support services in 19 foreign languages for the 3rd China International Import Expo.

  • Gu Hang

    Gu Hang has been a CIIE volunteer for three years running.

  • Gu Hang

    Gu Hang is designated to three different positions in his three-year volunteer service to CIIE.

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 total of 196 volunteers from Shanghai International Studies University (SISU), known as “Small Leaves”, provided support services in 19 foreign languages for the 3rd China International Import Expo (CIIE, Novem  sber 5-10).

In the past three years, over 1,400 SISU students volunteered for the CIIE, which has made the CIIE an essential part of the memory of the life at SISU. Like in the past years, SISU provided the largest number of volunteers among all the universities and colleges in Shanghai. About 75 percent of the volunteers master two foreign languages and 18 percent, three or more.

Gu Hang, a junior student from School of Asian and African Studies volunteering at the CIIE News Center, said that it is the charm of the CIIE and honor of being a “small leaf” that prompted him to participate in the event. “I hope to contribute to the Expo with my own effort,” he said.

In fact, the number of students registered in SISU voluntary service system has reached 9,281, meaning that 97.7 percent of all the students on campus have voluntarily signed up for and attended voluntary activities at least once. In total, they can provide volunteering service for over 150,000 hours per year, making volunteering an excellent tradition of SISU.

In response to the call for a better Expo, SISU has taken an active part in the construction of multilingual services in Shanghai, taking full advantage of its advanced language resources and corpus research. SISU students and graduates can be found in every sector of Shanghai’s multilingual services and international affairs, from regular translation work to the construction of an emergency broadcasting system in all languages.

Wang Jing, vice university council chair, pointed out that from fighting the coronavirus pandemic to supporting the CIIE, SISUers would always uphold the spirit of dedication and devote themselves to the internationalization of Shanghai.

The establishment of urban multilingual services are answers to the challenges that Shanghai has come across on its way to become a global metropolis with a sound emergency support system and can facilitate the promotion of urban delicacy governance.

 

The article is translated by Yu Min and Zhou Zixuan, and proofread by Lu Yuyang and Wang Bo, members of the Translation Association of the School of English Studies (SESTA) at Shanghai International Studies University. For use of the content, please contact: ses_translators@163.com.

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