Project Report On The Translation For The Announcements Of Investment Promotion Of Guangxi Qinzhou Free Trade Port Area

With the fast development of foreign economic and trade activities, announcement of investment promotion has become a common text type in translation practice. This kind of text has the characteristics like:rich contents, enormous information, medium and small sizes. The purpose of this kind of text is promoting local investment advantages to outside world, attracting investment and boosting the economic development. The quality of translation of the texts of announcements of investment promotion surely exerts a great influence on the business invitation activities and the effects of publicity.This thesis is a translation report on the announcements of investment promotion of Guangxi Qinzhou Free Trade Port Area. The source text is derived from the official website of Guangxi Qinzhou Free Trade Port Area. It includes11,130characters and several documents of announcements of investment promotion with many contents like:automobiles, logistics, hotels, ports, agriculture and non-ferrous metals. The source text introduces the geographic advantages, preferential policies and investment opportunities of Guangxi Qinzhou Free Trade Port Area. The purpose of the source text is to attract investment from home and abroad and further promote the social and economic development of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.This report consists of six parts:(1) Introduction, including the background information, project purpose and project significance.(2) Pre-translation analysis and preparations, including analysis of the source text, translation methods, positioning of target language and the schedule of translation project.(3) Analysis of translation cases, including the difficult points and skills of translation. The skills of translation includes:original syntactic ordering, sentence cutting, explicatory translation, sentence combination, restructuring in target language, addition.(4) Experience from translation.(5) Problems to be solved and improvements to be made.(6) Conclusion.Through the practice of this translation project, the translator wants to summarize the experience and skills of translation of investment promotion texts so as to better guide the translation practice and provide references and examples for other translators.