It has been written here before: one of the biggest problems for the Chinese Economy to stand a chance in the globablised world is the lack of translators into and - more importantly - from Chinese.

As a reminder of this problem, just read up on this on

http://en.ce.cn/National/Education/200704/07/t20070407_10961044.shtml

One of the interesting quotes for all LSPs would be this:

And large numbers of translators are catering to the market. China has 60,000 certified translators, while a conservative estimate places the number of professional translators at about 500,000, said Lin.

It remains a big problem to find the good ones amongst those 500,000 freelancers.