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Ａ　Ｐｒｉｖａｔｅ　Ｔｒａｎｓｌａｔｉｏｎ　Ｃｏｍｐａｎｙ　Ｃｏｎｔｒａｃｔｅｄ　ｆｏｒ　ｔｈｅ　Ｂ 　　AS a former official of China’s National Development and Reform Commission, Jiang Xiaolin knew everything there was to know about state-owned enterprises and real estate operations. But after a career spent in public service, he decided the time was right to strike out on his own. “We all feel sometimes that we can do a job better ourselves, that we can turn a lawn into a garden on our own,” Jiang said. So in 2005 he seized on the greatest opportunity of his career. He founded his own translation company, the Beijing Yuanpei Century Translation Co., Ltd. In late 2006, the company was named the sole translation and interpretation services supplier for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. It is the first time in Olympic history that a private company has been commissioned to provide translation services for the Games. 　　 　　Earn Clients’ Trust by 　　Insisting on Quality 　　 　　Traditionally, translators in China were employed by publishing companies, and they concentrated almost exclusively on the bookish task of making foreign literary works accessible to the Chinese public. However, since China adopted the policy of opening-up, a pressing need arose for translators and interpreters able to quickly and accurately bridge linguistic divides. 　　During the first decade of China’s reforms in the 1980s, competent translators and interpreters were essentially self-employed and in short supply, and it was not until the 1990s that the first actual translation companies began to emerge in China. But even then, the quality of translations was not always assured. 　　 　　Jiang realized that what was needed was a service that stood by the accuracy of its work. And so, drawing on the linguistic resources of Peking University, he established Yuanpei in 2005, and it has since become the only translation service in China that has implemented a total quality control system. 　　Indeed, the company has put its money where its mouth is, a