Emergency Measures In Press Conference Interpreting

Press conferences given by Chinese leaders are an important way to explain China’spolices. As a result, interpreters working at such conferences bear lots of responsibilitiesand pressure. On March14th,2010, Premier Wen Jiabao gave a press conference in theGreat Hall of the People. The conference lasted about2hours and there were13questionsput by12journalists to Premier Wen. This report analyzes the problems and difficultiesthat could rise for the interpreter at Premier Wen Jiabao’s2010press conference, includingcomplicated numbers, classical allusions, Chinese political concepts and rhetorical devices.And the report also discusses some reasonable emergency measures for these problems anddifficulties. It is hoped these findings will benefit interpreters faced with similar problems.