The meeting I did today was between a German tank container manufacturer and a Chinese military enterprise. The location was in Kaiping, Jiangmen, with 1 person from the German side and about 10 from the Chinese side, and it went well.
On the preparation of the meeting
1: look at both sides of the enterprise's website, it is best to visualize the content of the website. Especially the main business inside the keywords must be mastered!
For example, as encountered today, tank containers, toxic gases, pressure vessels, boilers, combined transport, NATO member countries, disaster relief departments, liquefied natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, these are keywords in foreign websites, and these words must be familiarized in advance.
2: The Chinese website, about the background of the enterprise, the main business should also be seen
3: It's best to go over the Ppt with the foreign party in advance, if possible. For example, today, I went over what he was going to talk about with the German side on the way. Otherwise it's hard to translate that LNG project in Rotterdam and Antwerp accurately!
4: Necessary background knowledge. This is completely dependent on the usual accumulation, the foreign party mentioned CIMC: CIMC Group. Because I have done projects for this company before, I still know more about their business.
5: The usual accumulation. Because I can't know in advance what the Chinese side is going to say today, but a lot of his speeches are about government policies. I believe it is very helpful to do some more politics in general. The interpretation of chemical and mechanical equipment is actually very simple, the difficulty lies in the vocabulary of some. The difficulty lies in the vocabulary. However, people with a little bit of science and technology background can prepare well for the specialized vocabulary without any problem.
Translations should be natural and decent, not cross-referenced word for word. It must be generous, do not look hard. To be frank, in fact, the accumulated effort is still in the usual, temporary play is more difficult to get ah.
Remarks: Take every project seriously. Prepare well no matter how hard or easy it is. If you feel that the pay and gain is not proportional, then 1: refused; 2: as growth capital. Today you do 300 dollars a day, do not give the customer that kind of: 300 a day How do you want to feel to make 1000 a day Fan, next time he looked for you, you can charge a thousand.
If you take it do it right no matter how hard or easy it is or just don't take it at all.
