Contestants interpreting 

 
The contest had two rounds, which were held in the morning and afternoon respectively. In the first round, the task was about interpreting the remarks of the Deputy Secretary General on Urbanization Issues inform the CUHK (Chinese University of Hong Kong). Responses were translated from English to Chinese and each contestant had three minutes and twenty seconds to listen to the passage and interpret it. Under this great pressure, contestants all tried their best to do well, which made the contest fierce and exciting. At the end of first round, twenty contestants with excellent marks were qualified to go on to the next round.
 
In the afternoon, 20 contestants continued as contestants with each, fighting valiantly on into the second round. In this round, the main task was to interpret a speech on the tourism industry from Chinese to English. Ms. DU Huanjun cut open the envelope containing the test questions. Then, after contestants went to the waiting room, the contest began. During this phase of the contest, contestants had no problems related to understanding of the speech or its meaning still, when interpreting, they encountered many problems such as the time limit, inaccurate information points and so on. In spite of the problems, each contestant showed their best to the audience. Generally speaking, with their abilities for quick thinking and flexible interpreting/translating strategies, all the contestants presented a wonderful performance. 
 
At the end of the contest, the expert FENG Zhilin offered some comments. Firstly, she congratulated contestants on their wonderful performances. Also, she pointed out some mistakes contestants made during the contest and suggested that contestants should learn to use pronouns that are used to replace the repeated Chinese nouns. Additionally she advised contestants not to use the first person when translating an official speech. What's more, she told contestants to pay more attention to the meaning that Chinese figures represent beyond only what figures may represent. Later, Professor GAO Wenping also encouraged contestants to work harder and  showed how contestants can cope with time problems such as simplifying sentences, grasping main points and handling sentences flexibly and so on.
 
After the final results came out, judges respectively awarded certificates to the prize winners and took pictures with them. The top seven contestants will attend the South China Regional Final next month.