Free-lance translation is a great way to make some extra money, and also helps give some small sense of what global capitalist development means in China. One thing it means is a certain kind of rhetoric, a deep pride in the step-by-step completion of initiatives directed at catching up to Western technological levels.
Here is a brief sample of this developmentalism rhetoric:
On May 31, experts from the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology National Remote Sensing Center conducted mid-term inspections of the Beijing Normal University-lead initiative of the 863 Plan, “Global Epicontinental Parameter Product Manufacture and Applied Research.” The meeting was hosted by National Remote Sensing Center Director Li Jiahong, with participation and lectures at the mid-term inspection meeting by BNU Vice President He Jianping, National Remote Sensing Center Assistant Director Zhang Songmei, and others.
The initiative is being led by Beijing Normal University, with the participation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, the Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, and other units, 11 in all. Among the initiative's assembled personnel, Program of Global Experts specially recruited Professor Liang Shunlin to report on the overall state of the initiative: the initiative has collected global remote sensing satellite data, product data, climate ecology station and surface observation data, totaling to 500 terabytes; it has established inversion algorithmic systems for global surface epicontinental special parameter products based on multiple sources of remote sensing data and possessing the highest international standards; it is establishing automated manufacturing systems for global kilometer-scale products, and also beginning automated production of five kinds of high precision global long-duration sequencing products. It has taken the first steps to implement CoLM-DGVM and transformational systems for assimilating the surface data of remote sensing data. After the team concluded the general report, 5 task force groups presented reports on the state of their tasks, and the experts gave their feedback on the progress of these tasks, yielding up valuable opinions and suggestions.
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